Mother Arrested After 2 Children Are Stabbed
A West Covina woman was arrested late Monday after she allegedly stabbed her 7-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife, authorities said.
Officers were called to the Mardina Street home of Phyllis Patricia Shademan, 29, after her son escaped through a bathroom window after being stabbed at least 10 times. The boy went to the home of a neighbor, who called authorities, West Covina Police Lt. John Schimanski said.
Police found the girl crying under a bed with several wounds in her back.
“All (the officers) saw was blood, all over the house,” Schimanski said.
Shademan was sitting in the bathroom “in a disoriented state,” he said.
The woman’s husband, Manharra, a cab driver, was at work.
Both children were in critical but stable condition at Queen of the Valley Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
Shademan was booked on suspicion of attempted murder, Schimanski said. A motive for the attacks was not known.
A bloodied kitchen knife believed used in the stabbings was recovered, the lieutenant said.
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