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'Please put the knife down!' Harrowing audio of a mother pleading with her 16-year-old daughter not to hurt her younger siblings
Stephanie, 16, threatened to harm herself and her two younger siblings
Her single mother has been forced to lock her in a wooden bedroom
The teenager was sexually abused as a child and developed problems
She started self-harming in high school, and has had 12 suicide attempts
Stephanie is now in a temporary hospital unit after the traumatic incident
Published: 00:18 EDT, 11 August 2016 | Updated: 03:47 EDT, 11 August 2016
A desperate mother has recorded the chilling moment her teenage daughter threatened to harm herself and her two younger siblings with a kitchen knife.
Emma Parrey, 43, has been forced to lock her 16-year-old daughter Stephanie in a wooden box bedroom in the hope it might stop her from trying to kill herself.
But a harrowing audio clip, recorded frantically on Emma's phone, shows just how bad things have gotten - despite the drastic measures taken to keep her safe.
Stephanie, 16, is kept locked inside her own room at night because her mother fears for her safety. She was sexually abused as a young child and has tried to commit suicide 12 times
The teenager's mother recently recorded the moment she tried to harm herself and her two younger siblings with a kitchen knife
'Stephanie, you need to put the knife down, please put it down! Stephanie!' Ms Parrey can be heard screaming in the background.
'Go away...' is the only growling response from Stephanie that can be heard.
Stephanie, you need to put the knife down, please put it down! Stephanie!
Emma, the single mother of a young family-of-three living in rural NSW, says she was left with no choice but to board up the room to protect her daughter.
Stephanie, who was sexually abused as a young child, has tried to commit suicide 12 times in the past two years.
She once tried to hang herself in her own wardrobe.
'We have turned her room into what we class as a safe room,' a traumatised Emma explained to Today Tonight Adelaide.
'The door gets locked every night because we don't feel safe. I don't feel that she's safe if she's not (locked in).'
Stephanie she started cutting herself (pictured) in high-school. She is being kept at a temporary unit at Sydney's John Hunter Hospital after the knife incident
For Emma, who lives in an isolated town with the nearest psychiatric services over two hours away, the drastic solution is her only option to keep her treasured daughter safe.
'I don't want to do it, I feel horrible for doing it, I feel like I'm not doing my job as a mum, because I shouldn't have to do it,' Ms Parrey sobs.
'Am I going to get there (into the bedroom) and she's not going to still be with us?'
'Is this the time I'm going to have to say goodbye?'
Softly-spoken Stephanie describes her bedroom as a 'prison.'
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'This is what I call a prison ... because it is. I'm being locked in like I'm in a prison,' she tells reporter David Richardson as he steps inside.
Dramatic steps have been taken to transform the girly room, once adorned in pink and purple curtains and littered with soft toys, into a sterile box lined with plywood and stripped of character.
Posters reading: 'Do not enter' and 'mental illness is not a choice but recovery' are stuck up on the wall; the only eerie signs that a teenager actually lives inside the lifeless room.
'I understand why but sometimes it hurts,' says a remarkably self-aware Stephanie.
Her distraught mother Emma says she worries that she might open up the bedroom to find her dead daughter
Dramatic steps have been taken to transform the girly bedroom (which once had pink curtains and bedsheets)
The deteriorating mental condition of Stephanie, who is being kept under the Mental Health Act in a short-stay unit at Sydney's John Hunter Hospital after the knife incident, is recorded in updates on a Facebook page run by a friend of Emma.
'Stephanie was trying to remove her neckbrace and trying to harm herself by trying to break her own fingers and biting her knuckles extremely hard and becoming combative and threatening,' was the update on day five in the hospital.
Stephanie was trying to remove her neckbrace and harm herself by trying to break her own fingers and biting her knuckles
'Today she has smashed her wrist and hand against a concrete wall numerous times and has required an x-ray which they are just waiting on the report to find out if there is any fractures/breaks,' was day seven's tragic update.
Emma has dreams of a brighter future for her daughter, but says Stephanie will need incredibly expensive 'daily therapy to get to the bottom of it.
After a horror three months, Emma said she had checked herself in to receive assistance for herself to deal with the trauma of the past three months.
'This is what I call a prison ... because it is': Stephanie (pictured with reporter) says she 'understands' why her mother has made the drastic decision but 'sometimes it hurts'
Pictures show Stephanie's room before it was covered in wooden panels to stop her hurting herself
Prisoner Daughter - Today Tonight Adelaide
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Listen to a mother pleading with her daughter not to hurt her younger siblings | Daily Mail Online
'Please put the knife down!' Harrowing audio of a mother pleading with her 16-year-old daughter not to hurt her younger siblings
Stephanie, 16, threatened to harm herself and her two younger siblings
Her single mother has been forced to lock her in a wooden bedroom
The teenager was sexually abused as a child and developed problems
She started self-harming in high school, and has had 12 suicide attempts
Stephanie is now in a temporary hospital unit after the traumatic incident
Published: 00:18 EDT, 11 August 2016 | Updated: 03:47 EDT, 11 August 2016
A desperate mother has recorded the chilling moment her teenage daughter threatened to harm herself and her two younger siblings with a kitchen knife.
Emma Parrey, 43, has been forced to lock her 16-year-old daughter Stephanie in a wooden box bedroom in the hope it might stop her from trying to kill herself.
But a harrowing audio clip, recorded frantically on Emma's phone, shows just how bad things have gotten - despite the drastic measures taken to keep her safe.
Stephanie, 16, is kept locked inside her own room at night because her mother fears for her safety. She was sexually abused as a young child and has tried to commit suicide 12 times
The teenager's mother recently recorded the moment she tried to harm herself and her two younger siblings with a kitchen knife
'Stephanie, you need to put the knife down, please put it down! Stephanie!' Ms Parrey can be heard screaming in the background.
'Go away...' is the only growling response from Stephanie that can be heard.
Stephanie, you need to put the knife down, please put it down! Stephanie!
Emma, the single mother of a young family-of-three living in rural NSW, says she was left with no choice but to board up the room to protect her daughter.
Stephanie, who was sexually abused as a young child, has tried to commit suicide 12 times in the past two years.
She once tried to hang herself in her own wardrobe.
'We have turned her room into what we class as a safe room,' a traumatised Emma explained to Today Tonight Adelaide.
'The door gets locked every night because we don't feel safe. I don't feel that she's safe if she's not (locked in).'
Stephanie she started cutting herself (pictured) in high-school. She is being kept at a temporary unit at Sydney's John Hunter Hospital after the knife incident
For Emma, who lives in an isolated town with the nearest psychiatric services over two hours away, the drastic solution is her only option to keep her treasured daughter safe.
'I don't want to do it, I feel horrible for doing it, I feel like I'm not doing my job a
s a mum, because I shouldn't have to do it,' Ms Parrey sobs.
'Am I going to get there (into the bedroom) and she's not going to still be with us?'
'Is this the time I'm going to have to say goodbye?'
Softly-spoken Stephanie describes her bedroom as a 'prison.'
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'This is what I call a prison ... because it is. I'm being locked in like I'm in a prison,' she tells reporter David Richardson as he steps inside.
Dramatic steps have been taken to transform the girly room, once adorned in pink and purple curtains and littered with soft toys, into a sterile box lined with plywood and stripped of character.
Posters reading: 'Do not enter' and 'mental illness is not a choice but recovery' are stuck up on the wall; the only eerie signs that a teenager actually lives inside the lifeless room.
'I understand why but sometimes it hurts,' says a remarkably self-aware Stephanie.
Her distraught mother Emma says she worries that she might open up the bedroom to find her dead daughter
Dramatic steps have been taken to transform the girly bedroom (which once had pink curtains and bedsheets)
The deteriorating mental condition of Stephanie, who is being kept under the Mental Health Act in a short-stay unit at Sydney's John Hunter Hospital after the knife incident, is recorded in updates on a Facebook page run by a friend of Emma.
'Stephanie was trying to remove her neckbrace and trying to harm herself by trying to break her own fingers and biting her knuckles extremely hard and becoming combative and threatening,' was the update on day five in the hospital.
Stephanie was trying to remove her neckbrace and harm herself by trying to break her own fingers and biting her knuckles
'Today she has smashed her wrist and hand against a concrete wall numerous times and has required an x-ray which they are just waiting on the report to find out if there is any fractures/breaks,' was day seven's tragic update.
Emma has dreams of a brighter future for her daughter, but says Stephanie will need incredibly expensive 'daily therapy to get to the bottom of it.
After a horror three months, Emma said she had checked herself in to receive assistance for herself to deal with the trauma of the past three months.
'This is what I call a prison ... because it is': Stephanie (pictured with reporter) says she 'understands' why her mother has made the drastic decision but 'sometimes it hurts'
Pictures show Stephanie's room before it was covered in wooden panels to stop her hurting herself
Prisoner Daughter - Today Tonight Adelaide
Prisoner Daughter follow - Today Tonight Adelaide