Woman stabs 7-year-old granddaughter in Bronx, leaving her clinging to life, cops say
A 7-year-old Bronx girl was stabbed by her own grandmother Tuesday morning, leaving the victim clinging to life, police sources said.
Someone walked into the family’s apartment on Clinton Ave. near E. 169th St. in Morrisania around 8 a.m. and found the young victim lying in bed with multiple stab wounds to the back, neck and stomach.
The person who walked in on the grisly scene called 911, police said.
Medics rushed the child to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition, where she was expected to survive.
Police recovered a knife at the scene.
The girl’s 65-year-old grandmother, Maritza Yauger, was found in the apartment and arrested, police said.
The alleged attacker was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital for a medical evaluation, where she remained late Tuesday night.
Yauger — whom cops described as emotionally disturbed — was charged with attempted murder, attempted manslaughter, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
