Michigan Woman Severely Beats 11-Month-Old Daughter, Stabs Husband, Offers To Dance With Officer During Arrest

A woman brutally beat her infant daughter and stabbed her husband in Muskegon County, Michigan, on Friday (May 15).

Muskegon Heights Police Chief Joseph Thomas Jr. said deputies responded to a home on the 2900 block of Seventh Street in Muskegon Heights around 12:30 a.m. and found a baby severely injured and a man with a stab wound. The 11-month-old girl was rushed to Mercy Health’s Hackley Campus. Medical tests revealed that the baby had suffered a broken skull. She also had multiple bruises on her head and shoulder and her wounds were termed “very severe.” The girl was then transferred to Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital for advanced treatment. The condition of the child was not known.

The baby’s father was also taken to a local hospital where he was treated for a stab wound to his back. Investigation revealed that the baby’s 39-year-old mother assaulted the child and stabbed her husband.

“The husband said she’s been acting strange, very erratically, and that she had assaulted her baby,” Chief Thomas said, adding that the husband also said “she stabbed him because he was watching TV.”

The chief said the unidentified woman acted strangely toward the officers as they arrested her.

“She was acting erratically with the officer. She wanted to dance with the officer … and (was) saying crazy things to the officer,” he said. The officer believed the woman may have been under the influence of some sort of substance. No other children were in the home when the incident took place.

The woman will be charged with three felonies, including first-degree child abuse. Police were asking the prosecutor to additionally charge the woman with assault — for stabbing the child’s father — and resisting and obstructing police. Investigation into the case was ongoing and the woman remained in prison as of Friday night.

Meanwhile, Chief Thomas said the stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in an increase in assaults among family members.

“Domestic assault is the number one crime right now,” he said.