Mother killed in Australia while on phone to husband in India

An Indian mother was fatally stabbed in a Sydney park during a brutal attack as she was on the phone to her distraught husband back home, police said Monday.

Prabha Arun Kumar, a 41-year-old IT professional, was taking a shortcut through Parramatta Park in the city's west at around 9.30pm (1030 GMT) on Saturday when she was killed.

Family members told Indian media that the woman was speaking with her husband, G. Arun Kumar, at the time and he heard her scream for help.

"She was walking while talking to Arun on the phone when she said that a suspicious-looking man was following her," brother-in-law Thrijesh Jayachandra told Indian newspaper The Hindu.

"The next moment he heard her scream for help and then plead with the man not to harm (her) and take all her belongings if he wanted. Seconds later, he heard her scream and say she was stabbed."

The husband jetted into Australia Monday and was helping police with their investigation

This is so sad, I cannot begin to imagine the anguish the poor husband went through hearing his wife begging for her life and not being able to do anything to help.

This one left me all teary eyed and feeling as if this place we call home is slowly turning into a living hell. The things we read on a daily basis seem to get more vile and it is as if the news centers find it OK and normal to just blurt out these things to us.

I am not going to be in a place where these things are being viewed as 'the norm' more needs to be done to uproot this plague of crime and violence infesting our earth.