Baltimore Mother Charged With Stabbing Her Baby Girl

A Baltimore woman is charged with attempted first-degree murder after stabbing her 8-month-old girl fives times in the head, neck, and chest.

Kenisha Thomas is charged with attempted first-degree murder for her gruesome crime against her infant child. According to police reports acquired by The Baltimore Sun, the incident occurred during a supervised visit at a welfare office between Kenisha, 29, and her daughter, who was removed from her care for unknown reasons. Kenisha was speaking with her social worker Dana Hays during the meeting and when the visit was over, Kenisha exposed her knife and stabbed her baby.

As the baby was stabbed, Dana ran out screaming for help. William Purnell Short III, a social services veteran, responded to the cry and barged into room 117, the scene of the crime. He saw Kenisha using her left hand to hold the baby on a table and her right hand to press a kitchen knife into the baby’s throat.

The social worker, who made the report to the police, threw a chair at Kenisha and forced her to let go of the baby. She then fell to the floor with the knife lodged in her neck. William held the woman until police arrived.

Remarkably, the infant survived the attack and is being looked after at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Kenisha is being held without bail on charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault and child abuse.

[The Baltimore Sun]

–Lorraine Chow

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i know and hey holly meet me at the green doors but that is just sick tbh btw js the baby was only 8 months old and it got took off her allready :L ……

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cus she is sickkkkkkkk…. what the point have a baby if she gunna stab it.. LOL feel sorry for the baby had to have that hanging sick mum..

thats sick who the hell would do that to a lil girl :/

When she goes to court she should be offered a lighter sentence if she agrees to get her tubes tied. This woman should not be having kids.

Of course she was black smh why just why hurt the little baby what did she do, why not just stab yourself? This pisses me all the way off

What does race have to do with it? A woman stabbed her child and she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There have been mothers of all races in the headlines lately that have harmed their children and that is truly sad. Maybe you should research or Google the topic its this kind of mentality that makes Americans look ignorant smh #ignoranceisbliss

you are a completely ignorant person. if u were the baby and the baby sed that about u u would want the wole woerld on ur side. u make no sense. and excuse my spelling if you ebven care about that either. i thought it was a celebrity website. ur not a celebrity so y r u even on here hoe?? im doing a research proj. on this case and oof course ur dumb comment came up! ghave a nice ady

Geez…I hope any report generated from your “research” is better written than your post here.

wow i hate dhat lady she stabbed dhat baby its not fuqin cool someone needs to stabb her

Oh boy Dana Hays what a hero you are. A baby is being stabbed in your office and you run out the door! Why do people even have one little thought in their heads about hurting someone that can’t even stick up for themselves?!

Here we go again!!!

this woman is a prime example of alll the trash in baltimore, and how they shouldnt be able to reproduce. If you felt the urge to stab your child there is something very wrong with you, give your child to someone who will love it and care for it, if your going to hate it and attempt to kill it. Kudos to the social worker who threw the chair, i wish i could have done that. she WILL rot in hell.

-She really deserves to be dead or in jail right now !!!

this is so sick, she should rote in hell, poor baby

Obviously there is something wrong with this woman. Who does this kind of thing? I bet she is a paranoid schizophrenic who is off her meds. This is partly social services fault for not having this “mothers” head examined, and for not supervising the visit better. This could have been prevented. That poor baby…

Who CARES about all these news stories – isn’t this a celeb site??????????????

-Ummm, who asked you? this is a 8 month old baby almost died !

Are you serious? Yes celeb site but you must be a heartless Beatch!

Not saying its a good reason but mayb there might be something wrong with her

this is hanging -.- who would do that.. sick.

see i hate people like this, especially to babies, they don’t do nothing to you why bring pain upon them!!!!! makes me sad and want to cry, i cant just imagine someone hurting a baby like that, it is hard enough to read it.