PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman repeatedly stabbed her 1 1/2-year-old daughter and left her with a steak knife lodged in her back in a snow-covered schoolyard, where she was found alive Monday, police said.
Tamika Fowler, 19, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and related offenses in the attack on Shytaisia Shirley, Police Capt. John Darby said. The toddler was hospitalized in critical condition but was expected to survive, he said.
Bystanders found Shytaisia sitting upright in a snow bank in a west Philadelphia schoolyard with the 4-inch knife in her back early Monday and flagged down police, Darby said.