BATON ROUGE (USA), Sept 23: A man repeatedly stabbed his two-year-old daughter and estranged wife along a highway in Louisiana state on Friday while horrified people watched from their cars in rush-hour traffic.
The girl was in a car with her parents when her father started stabbing his wife with a kitchen knife along Interstate 110, said Cpl. L’Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge Police spokesman.
When the 26-year-old woman got out and ran for help from a sheriff’s deputy in a squad car just ahead of them, her husband stabbed his daughter, McKneely said. “He kept stabbing her until the knife was stuck in her head,” witness Gloria Spears told a local television station. The man then put the girl on the highway and drove off.
He sped into downtown Baton Rouge and knocked down at least three utility poles before his car hurtled through the air and overturned on top of another vehicle. All three were taken to a hospital, where the child was in “extremely critical” condition, with a cut “along her midsection and a kitchen knife lodged in her head,” McKneely said. Her mother also had numerous stab wounds, he said. She was expected to live.—AP
