{"id":14261,"date":"2012-04-30T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2012-04-30T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:08:07","slug":"baltimore-mom-charged-with-stabbing-baby-in-dss-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14261","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Mom Charged With Stabbing Baby In DSS Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kenisha Thomas<\/strong>, the Baltimore Mother accused of stabbing her 8-month-old daughter five times during a visit to the Department of Social Services (DSS), was charged Thursday with attempted first-degree murder, child abuse and assault, reports WBAL-TV.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened on Tuesday morning, when <strong>Thomas<\/strong> visited DDS to have a supervised visit with her baby, <strong>Pretty Diamond<\/strong>. who had been removed from her care.<\/p>\n<p>Officials would not give a reason as to why the state took the baby away from <strong>Thomas<\/strong>, but according to witnesses at the DSS office, the 29-year-old woman was not happy with her child\u2019s care and felt she could to do a better job.\u00a0 When social worker <strong>Dana Hayes<\/strong> told <strong>Thomas<\/strong> that her hour visitation had ended, she reportedly became enraged and said, \u201cIt\u2019s about to be over!\u201d\u00a0 She then reportedly fumbled through her purse, frantically looking for something and wound up pulling out a long kitchen knife. Court documents then state that <strong>Thomas<\/strong> began stabbing her baby.\u00a0 <strong>Hayes<\/strong> then frantically ran from the office screaming for help.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hayes<\/strong> co-worker<strong> William Purnell Short III<\/strong> heard<strong> Hayes\u2019<\/strong> cries and offered to help save the baby.\u00a0 The 23-year veteran ran into the office where he witnessed <strong>Thomas<\/strong> wielding the knife, but by that time, the child had been stabbed a total of five times in the head, neck and chest.\u00a0 He then saw<strong> Thomas<\/strong> place the knife to the baby\u2019s throat as she stated, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill her!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short<\/strong> acted quickly and threw chairs at the Mom\u2019s face, which prompted her to release her child. <strong>Pretty Diamond<\/strong> fell to the floor with the knife still lodged in her throat.\u00a0 <strong>Short\u2019s<\/strong> heroic deed didn\u2019t stop with the throwing of the chairs. He also grabbed <strong>Thomas<\/strong>, wrestled her to the ground, and held her until police arrived even though she dug her teeth into his hand and refused to let go.<\/p>\n<p>After <strong>Thomas<\/strong> was restrained, she was reportedly quoted as saying, \u201cLock me up!\u00a0 If I can\u2019t have her, nobody will!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are now trying to determine how <strong>Thomas<\/strong> was able to bring the knife onto the DDS premises in the first place. <strong>Patrick Moran<\/strong>, the director of AFSCME Maryland, says <strong>Thomas\u2019s<\/strong> purse should have been searched and that she should have passed through a metal detector, according to WBAL-TV.<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>Thomas<\/strong> is being held without bail and will also receive a psychiatric evaluation, miraculously, <strong>Pretty Diamond<\/strong> is reported in good condition and is being treated at a local hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenisha Thomas, the Baltimore Mother accused of stabbing her 8-month-old daughter five times during a visit to the Department of Social Services (DSS), was charged Thursday with attempted first-degree murder, child abuse and assault, reports WBAL-TV. The attack happened on Tuesday morning, when Thomas visited DDS to have a supervised visit with her baby, Pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}