A kangaroo knocked over a two-year-old boy who was playing with his toy wheelbarrow, subsequently pinning him down and attempting to claw him to death.
Terrified by the screaming child, his parents quickly ran towards the animal and succeeded in scaring it away, though not before Zakkiah Galea suffered serious injuries to his face and body.
Nicole Galea, his mother, recounted the experience, explaining that the aggressive kangaroo made her fear for her son’s life during the attack at their ten-acre property in Port Macquarie, located in northern New South Wales.
Eight months pregnant, Mrs. Galea stated: ‘The kangaroo was on top of him. He was pinned to the ground while it clawed at his forearms.
‘I screamed at the kangaroo to get off him but it wouldn’t – it just kept on attacking.’
It was only when Zakkiah’s father, Andrew Galea, rushed to assist his wife in driving off the kangaroo that the creature finally fled into the nearby bushland.
‘It turned on Andrew first before hopping away,’ Mrs. Galea reported.
‘Seeing Zakkiah was just awful. He had a bloody face, and blood had soaked through his shirt.
‘There was a deep puncture in his chest and a gash on the top of his leg. He had two large gouges running from his mouth to his ear.’
Now at home, Zakkiah is recovering from his wounds which required 13 stitches.
His mother mentioned: ‘He’s scared. He says he doesn’t want to be attacked by the “tiger kangaroo” again.’
