A MOM has been stabbed in the baby changing room of the iconic Macy’s store in New York City in front of her 10-month-old daughter.
The suspect arrested for the attack is a woman who prosecutors say was “looking for someone to kill” just hours after being released from a psychiatric ward in Manhattan.
The victim, a tourist from California, was changing her child’s diaper around 3pm on Thursday, when the crazed woman allegedly burst into the stall on the seventh floor and stabbed her multiple times.
During the heinous attack, the baby fell from the changing table onto the floor, prosecutors allege.
Authorities say the 38-year-old mother was stabbed in the back and slashed in the arm and was taken to hospital in a stable condition.
The baby was not harmed in the knife attack.
Kerri Aherne was arrested after being detained by the baby’s father and store security.
The 43-year-old had been released from Manhattan Psychiatric Center earlier that morning after being there for a year.
“She had purchased a knife at Macy’s and looked for someone to kill because voices in her head told her that she had to kill someone or else she would be killed,” Paul Barker, the Manhattan Assistant District Attorney, said in court on Friday.
Aherne has been charged with attempted murder, endangering the welfare of a child, two counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
She allegedly bought the knife at Macy’s moments before the attack.
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