Police: Mom stabs 2 young daughters at California home, leaving 5-year-old on life support

Calif. woman accused of stabbing 2 young daughters

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — Police say a mother stabbed her two young daughters and then tried to kill herself at an Orange County home.

A 5-year-old was hospitalized on life support and the mother and 3-year-old had non-life-threatening injuries.

Officer Van Woodson says the woman was clutching her younger daughter and both were covered in blood. Her 5-year-old daughter was found in another bedroom with a stab wound in her chest.

Woodson says the 38-year-old Garden Grove woman confessed to the stabbings and suicide attempt.

A motive for the attack is under investigation.

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WESTMINSTER, Calif. (AP) — Police say a mother stabbed her two young daughters — leaving one on life-support — and then stabbed herself at a Southern California home.

Police say 911 calls Wednesday morning sent officers to a home in Westminster. They found the wounded woman and her two daughters, ages 3 and 5.

Westminster police Officer Van Woodson says it appears the 38-year-old woman took her daughters to a relative’s home where the stabbings occurred.

All three were hospitalized. Woodson says the 5-year-old was on life-support. The mother and the other girl are expected to survive.

A motive for the attack is under investigation.