By Laura BennettThursday 2 Dec 2021NewsReading Time: 2 minutes
Update Thursday 24 Mar 2022
Welcome to the world Selina Abdallah
The Abdallah family were proud to announce the birth of their seventh child, a baby girl, on Friday 18 March 2022.
“Our little girl is in good health. Antony, Angelina, and Sienna in heaven, Liana, Alex and Micheal with us,” The Four Angels Facebook post stated.
“God has answered our prayers. The Lord gives and the Lord takes blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Thursday 2 Dec 2021
Leila and Danny Abdallah, the parents of three children who were killed alongside one of their cousins by an intoxicated driver in Sydney’s West, are celebrating this year as they announce they are expecting a child.
Almost two years since tragedy struck, Danny told Hope 103.2, “In the first trimester, I didn’t want to get to get too excited”.
“But now more than halfway [along], I’ve had six kids, but it feels like I’ve got my first child again,” he said.
“We’re thrilled.”
“We’re thrilled,” – Danny Abdallah
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Source: The Four Angels Facebook page
Danny said he and wife Leila had been planning to have more children, but “we left it in God’s hands”.
“We’re just trying to lead by example for our kids about resilience,” he said.
“You know, things in life happen and you’ve just got to keep moving forward.”
The impending arrival of their new baby is something Danny said does give them reason to focus on the future, but acknowledges it won’t ever displace their grief.
“We’ll never forget our children. Leila and I, we grieve everyday. Our hearts are broken,” Danny said.
“But it doesn’t give us an excuse to not make my other kids happy and build a happy home.
“We’ll never forget our children. Leila and I, we grieve everyday… But it doesn’t give us an excuse to not make my other kids happy and build a happy home,” – Danny Abdallah
“We’re entitled to make it worse for ourselves, but we try not to.”
Source: The Four Angels Facebook page
Danny said the children are “so excited” to have a sibling on the way.
“I asked them what they want for Christmas and every single one of them said ‘I want to get baby shoes, I want to get baby clothes’. They’re very selfless like that.”
As the family shares in this joy, Danny said they also continue to find hope in the faith that “has kept us going” since the accident.
“Our faith comes first,” Danny said. “We know we’ll see our kids again.”