9-year-old boy allegedly stabs sister in back

9-year-old boy allegedly stabs sister in back
By Lucas Sullivan | Monday, December 7, 2009, 11:28 AM

DAYTON - Police arrested a 9-year-old boy after he allegedly stabbed his 12-year-old sister in the back with a knife Sunday, Dec. 6.

Officers arrived to the 3400 block of Haberer Avenue about 10 a.m. to find the girl with a “severe” stab wound in her upper back, according to a police report.

The girl was standing in the kitchen crying and had to be taken by medics to Dayton Children’s Medical Center, the report stated.

She was having trouble breathing, but her injuries were described as non-life threatening, the report stated. She is expected to fully recover, police said.

Before leaving she told officers she and her brother were arguing and he returned to the kitchen with a knife and stabbed her, the report stated.

The children’s adoptive mother, Donna Patterson, 52, heard screaming and ran into the kitchen, but the girl had already been stabbed, the report stated.

Patterson said she wanted to press charges against the boy and he was fingerprinted at the county jail before placed in the county juvenile detention center on a felony assault charge, the report stated.

Patterson told officers she has asked Montgomery County Children’s Services to “reverse” the boy’s adoption because he is violent, but has received no resolution, the report stated.

Children’s Services spokeswoman Ann Stevens said Patterson adopted the boy in 2002 and his sister in 2005. Patterson recently requested the agency “intervene,” but the parties have yet to set a date to discuss her issues, Stevens said.

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