Missouri Woman Slits 6-Year-Old’s Throat As She Wanted Him 'To Rest In Peace'

A Missouri woman has been arrested and charged for slitting the throat of a 6-year-old child in a senseless attack, police said.

On Aug. 27, 47-year-old Natalia Jacquemin called police around 11:20 p.m. and confessed to killing a 6-year-old boy at a home in St. Charles County.

According to a court document obtained by St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jacquemin told the officers in the call, “I slit his throat."

"I tried getting him away from his dad. I slit his neck...I did it,” she admitted while crying, reported KSDK.

As she was being arrested, Jacquemin told a responding officer that she “just wanted him to rest in peace,” referring to the child.

The boy suffered an eight-inch laceration to his neck but survived the incident. The attack damaged his neck muscles. According to doctors, the boy needed surgery to repair the “internal injuries” sustained during the cutting.

While searching the crime scene, police found a drop of blood on the floor of the hallway between the kitchen and the boy’s bedroom. Police also found several knives and a razor, reported the Dispatch. The knives or blades did not have any blood on them.

Police did not reveal the motive behind the attack and Jacquemin’s relationship with the victim, but the boy is said to be a family member. No other information was disclosed by the investigators.

Jacquemin was later charged with first-degree domestic assault causing serious bodily injury and armed criminal action. No lawyer has been listed for her in court documents and she is being held on a $2 million bond.

In a similar incident, a couple in India allegedly slit the throats of their two children and consumed poison in an apparent suicide pact. The father used an electric floor tile cutter to cut the throat of their 16-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter while the two were asleep in the family’s home. The son died at the scene. However, the cutter broke while he used it on his daughter and she survived.