Abdallah family who lost three children to drunk driver's horror rampage ... trends now
The family who lost three children in a horrific car smash where a drunk and drugged driver mounted a footpath have welcomed their eighth child, who they are calling 'a miracle baby'.
Western Sydney couple Danny and Leila Abdallah gave birth to a healthy girl on April 20, which is their second baby since the horrific accident that claimed the lives of three of their children on February 1, 2020.
Antony, 13, Angelina, 12, Sienna, eight, and their niece Veronique Sakr, 11 were hit by a ute that careened onto a footpath and mowed the children down as they went to buy ice-cream at Oatlands, a north-west suburb of Sydney.
Danny and Leila Abdallah, who lost three children to a drunk and drugged-up driver's horrific car crash, welcomed their eighth child, an as yet-unnamed daughter born on April 20
Astonishingly the devoutly Christian Abdallahs said they forgave the driver responsible, Samuel Davidson, who in jail converted to the family's Maronite Catholicism and has now sent them congratulations on the new birth.
Mr Abdallah says he speaks regularly with Davidson and Davidson's parents, and accepted the congratulations of both parties following the birth of his new daughter, who is yet to be named.
'There are no winners in this, in any tragedy like this, so all we can do is show forgiveness, move forward in the best way we can and try to find joy in the midst of pain,' Mr Abdallah told the Daily Telegraph.
'Samuel's parents gave me a call and said congratulations on the new baby and I said thank you.
'The driver rang me from jail the next day and said congratulations and that he was thinking of us and I told him he and his family are in my prayers.'
Ms Abdallah said the unplanned pregnancy came as a shock and it was two dreams of Antony and Angelina in the same week that alerted her to the 'miracle baby'.
Ms Abadallah presented Selena to Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was allegedly stabbed in his church earlier this month
The Abdallahs gave birth to their seventh child on March 18, 2022, who they named Selena, combining the names of the two sisters she would
