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(14,628 posts) Fri Sep 21, 2018, 03:19 PM Sep 2018

A 3-day-old and 2 other infants were stabbed at a New York day care center

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/us/new-york-day-care-stabbing/index.html

New York (CNN) - A newborn and two infants were among five people stabbed early Friday at an unlicensed day care center in New York by an employee who then tried to kill herself, officials said.

The victims -- two girls and a boy, plus two adults -- were in critical but stable condition Friday at local hospitals, New York police said. The babies range in age from 3 days to 1 month, New York police Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes told reporters Friday. Nine babies, along with some of their parents, had been in the center during the attack, she said.

There was one child with more serious injuries than the other two," Holmes said. "At one point, we thought she might have been likely (to die), but, thank God, she was upgraded."

The father of one injured child and a woman who works at the Queens day care were also attacked, according to police. The man was stabbed in the leg, and the woman was stabbed repeatedly in the torso, Holmes said. The suspect, a 52-year-old woman employed at the center, was taken to a hospital after slashing her wrist, police said. She is in custody.