An 18-year-old woman lay unconscious on a Perth street, while hundreds of people walked by and no one offered any help.
The woman, who has not been identified, had just come from donating blood when she collapsed in the city centre.
The woman’s mother says, "There seems to have been a basic assumption that she was drunk or on drugs. The community needs to realise that not all kids are on drugs. My daughter was giving blood to help others."
The chaplain of Perth’s Christ Church Grammar School believes the uncaring attitude of the crowd can only be attributed to a growing fear of violence and people’s own selfishness.
While Canon Frank Sheehan acknowledges that prudence is not only practical, but necessary, he says that anxiety also cannot rule a person’s life.
A girlfriend who was with the woman when she collapsed did call her parents for help, but it took thirty minutes for them to arrive.
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Fainting woman gets no reaction from passing crowd
By: Robert Lee
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 16:38 (EST)
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