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A four-year-old girl was stabbed multiple times yesterday inside a home in Paterson, New Jersey.

An ambulance responded to the scene around 4 p.m. Friday. Neighbors on East 24th St and 10th Av said the girl’s mother frantically carried her out, covered in blood. The unidentified girl arrived at Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center in stable condition.

The attack was apparently the result of a family dispute inside the house. The suspect is an aunt of the girl who has emotional problems.

“It was the aunt who committed this crime and she is on the loose. They are trying to locate her… she was not there at the time the officers were dispatched,” Councilman Luis Velez told ABC News.

Neighbors say the aunt was often seen waking up and walking up and down the block while talking to herself. People are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

Domestic violence is a constant in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with victims who are minors. Every day in NYC, an average of 747 incidents of domestic violence are reported – including assault, abuse, verbal abuse – and about 65 homicides annually.

This week, a young man with apparent mental problems was accused of beating his aunt to death with a broom handle during a frenzied fight at the victim’s home in Queens (NYC).

Last week, a 3-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in Newark, New Jersey’s most populous city. And a couple planning to marry died in Staten Island (NYC) in an apparent murder-suicide amid a string of family tragedies. Earlier, a 26-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of shooting his twin sister to death in a home in New Jersey.

Also this month, a 31-year-old man admitted to police that he stabbed his elderly father to death at their home in Ridgefield, a quiet Connecticut town that had not had a homicide for more than two decades, in 2003. And a father in New Jersey was convicted of killing his 6-year-old son by abusing him because “the boy was fat,” according to prosecutors.

In July, four people – including two young children – were found stabbed to death in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) and a relative was arrested for the crime. Also last month, Dimone Fleming was charged with killing her children in a shelter in the Bronx (NYC) in 2022. Days earlier, Romney Desronvil was accused of taking his 3-year-old twin children from Queens (NYC) to a beach in Connecticut with the intention of drowning them, amid a bitter separation from his wife.

In May, a mother was charged with beating her daughter to death in the Bronx (NYC). Also that month, a Latino ex-convict was charged with fatally beating his mother in their apartment in the Bronx (NYC). In April, a Hispanic man was charged with brutally killing his girlfriend in Harlem (NYC). It was later revealed that he had been deported for drug trafficking in 2002, but returned to the country, according to prosecutors.

In February, Lasasha Gouldbourne (31) was charged with involuntary manslaughter months after her newborn twin was found stuffed in a laundry bag in the Bronx (NYC). Days later, a man was charged with killing her sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan as she sat next to her father in a home in Erwin, New York.

Also that month, a 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was shot dead by her partner, who then committed suicide in the victim’s apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). And a mother died and her two children were injured after a gunman shot them inside an apartment in the Bronx (NYC).

In January, a man was arrested one day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of having strangled her in her home in Staten Island (NYC). Also that month, a woman was sentenced for the death of her twin babies in Long Island (NY). Days earlier, a Hispanic woman killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (NJ) after receiving an eviction order, authorities reported.

In October, a Hispanic grandmother was arrested after confessing to stabbing her 5-year-old granddaughter in a home in Paterson, NJ. In August 2023, an oncologist shot her newborn baby and then herself in Westchester County, NY, in a possible case of postpartum depression.

In February of last year, a Dominican grandmother was accused of brutally stabbing her 7-year-old granddaughter in her apartment in the Bronx (NYC). If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if they are a minor or elderly:

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