Woman accused of stabbing autistic boy

Published: Dec. 2, 2007 at 2:10 PM

LAUDERHILL, Fla., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Police in Florida have arrested a 40-year-old woman for allegedly stabbing her autistic nephew with a knife and leaving him to bleed overnight.

Lauderhill Police Department spokesman, Lt. Rick Rocco, said Lisa Babington's nephew survived her alleged attack and identified his aunt as the person responsible for his significant injuries, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Sunday.

Rocco said Thursday's brutal attack, which allegedly took place in front of the boy's grandmother, left the 14-year-old boy blind in one eye and that he could potentially lose sight in his other eye.

"This is ghastly, I have never seen anything like it," Rocco said. "This is off the scale in terms of how could someone do something like this to anybody, let alone a juvenile."

The boy's grandmother, Stella Babington, alleged her daughter had repeatedly stabbed the boy in his eyes while uttering biblical verses aloud.

The newspaper said the 72-year-old also is facing possible criminal charges for not contacting authorities regarding the attack.

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