CHICAGO (WLS) — A woman has been charged after three young children were stabbed and seriously injured Wednesday on the city’s South Side.
The stabbings happened around 5:44 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Harvard Avenue in Englewood near Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago police said.
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A 33-year-old woman named Aurionah-Rakii-Karie Parker-White reportedly took three injured children to St. Bernard Hospital after she allegedly stabbed them with a sharp object, as stated by the police.
The victims included a 1-year-old girl and two boys aged 3 and 5, who suffered cuts on their right wrists, according to Chicago police. They were then transferred to Comer Children’s Hospital and were initially described as being in serious condition.
Parker-White was placed into custody at the hospital, CPD said.
The suspect three felony counts of attempted first-degree murder and three felony counts of aggravated battery of a child, police said.
On Wednesday, ABC7 interviewed a man who claimed he drove the woman and the three children to St. Bernard Hospital before they were moved to Comer. He mentioned he did not want to wait for the police to show up before getting them medical attention.
Tow truck driver Devaughen Stringfellow said he saw a baby on the sidewalk and then saw a woman come out with another toddler in her arms followed by an older child. He said all of the children were covered in blood.
“When we was in the back the security guard asked her what happened,” Stringfellow said. “She was like, ‘I did it because I got three different baby daddies and nobody’s trying to help me.’ That’s when he grabbed her and took her and put her in that room.”
Stringfellow said that’s what the woman said as soon as they arrived to St. Bernard Hospital.
Investigators would not say what the relationship was between the three children and the woman, but Stringfellow said one of the most heartbreaking moments as he was taking them to the hospital was hearing this from the 5-year-old boy.
“What’s so bad about it and the little boy told, and this is what hurt me the most, cause the little boy in the truck say, ‘mama don’t cry it’s going to be all right,'” Stringfellow said.
No further information about the stabbings was immediately available.
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