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The mother of a Bondi Junction stabbing victim has shared the shock and anger at learning of her daughter's fate after seeing her being given CPR during a live TV news feed.
Elizabeth Young, the mother of Jade Young, says having her daughter's last moments broadcast to millions of people was an 'appalling breach of privacy and an insult to human dignity.'
Mother-of-two and architect Jade, 47, was with her youngest daughter at the shopping centre in Sydney's east when Joel Cauchi stabbed her and five others to death on April 13.
Elizabeth Young, the mother of Bondi Junction stabbing victim Jade Young,
Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald Ms Young said media outlets 'scraped the bottom of the barrel of humanity' by sharing images of her dying daughter.
'I point my finger at the individual for seeing fit to capture the moment and then sharing it, and the mainstream channel for putting it to air,' she wrote. 'For what reason? I can only think it is to satisfy the increasingly morbid curiosity of society.'
Ms Young accused media outlets and of 'commodifying' her daughter's death and turning it into 'casual content'.
She said the same media organisations approached her family within hours of the tragedy 'offering their condolences … and the opportunity to share our family’s story'.
'These same media organisations reported the failure of a certain popular social media
