Aa
they should have let her die
Police: Woman Cuts Son's Throat, Attempts Suicide
Suspect's 14-Year-Old Son Calls 911
POSTED: Thursday, August 12, 2010
UPDATED: 6:05 pm EDT August 12, 2010
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A woman and her 3-year-old son are hospitalized after, police said, the woman cut her child's throat and then attempted to kill herself by cutting her own.
Hollywood police said the woman's 14-year-old son found his injured mother and brother in their home in the 6100 block of Cleveland Street on Thursday morning and called 911.
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"He awoke this morning about 9 a.m., and when he did wake up, he saw blood in the apartment. He saw his mother in a pool of blood, bleeding from the neck. He saw his brother bleeding from the neck in a pool of blood," said Lt. Scott Pardon, of the Hollywood Police Department.
Police said 48-year-old Mirtha Arias tried to kill her son, 3-year-old Sebastian Capriotti, by cutting his throat with a box cutter. Then, police said, the woman tried to kill herself by slicing her own throat.
Paramedics rushed the mother and son to hospitals. Arias underwent surgery at Memorial Regional Hospital, and Capriotti underwent surgery at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. They are expected to survive.
Hollywood police said Arias missed her son's jugular vein. The child was alert, conscious and told police his mother was the one who hurt him, Pardon said.
"We know that she did it because the 3-year-old was actually able to tell us that his mother did this to him. But the child was not able to tell us any reason that his mother said to him why she just did it," Pardon said.
According to Hollywood police, Arias was upset after a court hearing involving the custody of her 3-year-old son.
"She's involved in a custody dispute with the child's father and there's been some recent court proceedings regarding custody," Pardon said. "She said to some friends she was unhappy with the way those proceedings were going."
Hollywood police said Arias would be charged with attempted murder.
"That's the million-dollar question, why someone would do this to her own child," Pardon said.
Friends and family members who gathered at the hospital did not want to comment.
Suspect's 14-Year-Old Son Calls 911
POSTED: Thursday, August 12, 2010
UPDATED: 6:05 pm EDT August 12, 2010
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A woman and her 3-year-old son are hospitalized after, police said, the woman cut her child's throat and then attempted to kill herself by cutting her own.
Hollywood police said the woman's 14-year-old son found his injured mother and brother in their home in the 6100 block of Cleveland Street on Thursday morning and called 911.
Watch: Video
"He awoke this morning about 9 a.m., and when he did wake up, he saw blood in the apartment. He saw his mother in a pool of blood, bleeding from the neck. He saw his brother bleeding from the neck in a pool of blood," said Lt. Scott Pardon, of the Hollywood Police Department.
Police said 48-year-old Mirtha Arias tried to kill her son, 3-year-old Sebastian Capriotti, by cutting his throat with a box cutter. Then, police said, the woman tried to kill herself by slicing her own throat.
Paramedics rushed the mother and son to hospitals. Arias underwent surgery at Memorial Regional Hospital, and Capriotti underwent surgery at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. They are expected to survive.
Hollywood police said Arias missed her son's jugular vein. The child was alert, conscious and told police his mother was the one who hurt him, Pardon said.
"We know that she did it because the 3-year-old was actually able to tell us that his mother did this to him. But the child was not able to tell us any reason that his mother said to him why she just did it," Pardon said.
According to Hollywood police, Arias was upset after a court hearing involving the custody of her 3-year-old son.
"She's involved in a custody dispute with the child's father and there's been some recent court proceedings regarding custody," Pardon said. "She said to some friends she was unhappy with the way those proceedings were going."
Hollywood police said Arias would be charged with attempted murder.
"That's the million-dollar question, why someone would do this to her own child," Pardon said.
Friends and family members who gathered at the hospital did not want to comment.
Wow! More and more of this all of the time. They must be demon posessed! Truly disgusting.
To harm any child is incredibly evil...to do something like this to one's own...I don't even have the words. If you feel the need to take your own life I guess that is one thing...but why try to take your child with you. As difficult as it is for me to say this about anyone, I have to agree with Mel's title...I am so glad that little boy will be ok...at least physically. Can you imagine what this will do to him emotionally though? At 3 he might be old enough to remember this for life. Poor little boy.
Sick, sick,, evil woman.....death is too quick for her. anyone who can harm their own child deserves to suffer for a long time. Just awful.
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