Texas Mother Attacks Two Sons With Knife

Police say a man who pulled over to help a bleeding 10-year-old boy by the roadside likely saved another boy’s life by intervening in a mother’s knife attack on her son. Robert Villarreal, 46, was departing San Antonio for Eagle Pass on Tuesday for his job as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer when he saw the 10-year-old covered in blood. The boy told the man his mother was stabbing his brother inside a nearby house. Villarreal instructed another motorist to call authorities while he followed the boy to the house. Villarreal said he entered the home’s back door to find the woman holding the 12-year-old boy’s neck with one hand and clutching a knife and a fork in the other. The kitchen floor was splattered with blood. “She was hysterical,” Villarreal said. “She said she was going to kill the little boy. She had already stabbed his brother and she was going to kill him.” Villarreal managed to wrestle the woman to the ground, separate... (more...)

Mother Faces Attempted Murder And Abuse Charges

WINTER HAVEN (December 22, 2006) - A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on charges of first-degree attempted murder and child abuse after being accused of forcing her 10-month-old daughter to drink bleach. Liverine Cajuste told Winter Haven Police Department officers that she tried to kill herself and her daughter, Luciene Beawbrin, because she was depressed. Cajuste was arrested Dec. 13 after she was released from Winter Haven Hospital. She is being held at the Polk County Jail on $26,000 bail. Cajuste told officers that when she fed the bleach to Luciene, the child began to throw up. As of today, no serious harm was caused to the baby, according to the complaint affidavit filed by Winter Haven police. The incident took place Nov. 3, when Cajuste drank a cup of bleach in her apartment at 455 Ave. T N.E., according to the police report of the incident. The single mother then refilled the cup and forced her 10-month-old daughter to drink bleach, according to a police report. Her other daughter,... (more...)

Woman Charged With Malicious Castration

Sat Dec 30 2006: A woman attacked a man in his genitals during a Christmas party, injuring him badly enough that he needed 50 stitches, authorities said Friday. Rebecca Arnold Dawson, 34, was charged with malicious castration in a fight early Tuesday at a party hosted by the 38-year-old man’s girlfriend, police said. All three were heavily intoxicated, police Chief Frank Powers said. Dawson is accused of grabbing the man’s genitals. Police said a weapon was not used. He declined to elaborate. “I believe he needed more than 50 stitches to repair the damage, but he is back home at this point,” police Cpl. Brad Stevens said. “All we can tell you is that the injury was done with her hands.” Dawson does not have a listed phone number. State law describes malicious castration as cutting off, maiming or disfiguring a person’s genitals with the intent to hurt or render the victim impotent. Dawson, who was released Wednesday on $50,000 bond, also was charged... (more...)