Mother Slashes Child's Throat Before Attempting Suicide

KTLA News
1:18 PM PDT, July 9, 2010

SAN PEDRO -- A 10-year-girl has died after being slashed by her knife-wielding mother before the woman tried to commit suicide, police said.

The girl's father awoke about 2:30 a.m. and found his wife attacking his daughter with a knife, said Deputy Chief Pat Gannon.

"The father was able to get the weapon away from her," Gannon said.

But the mother had already cut the child's neck and wrists and slashed her own wrists.

"The girl was transported to hospital in terrible condition," Gannon said.

The girl died shortly before noon Friday.

Her mother remains hospitalized in extremely critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds.

The family lived on the Ft. MacArthur housing facility on Pacific Avenue between 22nd and 36th Streets.

The father is a retired from the U.S. Navy.

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