By WENDY RUDERMAN and MARC SANTORA
Published: October 25, 2012
Two young boys were discovered fatally stabbed on Thursday inside an apartment in a luxury building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan by their mother, who came home from work to find a horrific scene.
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
The stabbings took place at the La Rochelle on West 75th Street, shown here in 2006.
The New York Times
The children’s nanny, who was found with a self-inflicted stab wound, was arrested after the stabbings inside the apartment at 57 West 75th Street, the police said.
One neighbor, who declined to give his name, reported hearing screams around 5:30 p.m., around the time that the children’s mother arrived home from work to find her children, boys ages 6 and 2, stabbed and in a bathtub.
The police declined to provide details about those stabbed. The police said the boys were pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Hospital, where the nanny was in extremely critical condition.
“It’s a chaotic scene,” a fire official said.
Neighbors watched nervously as several of those injured in the stabbing were taken out on stretchers and loaded into ambulances. The entire block, from Central Park West to Columbus Avenue, was shut down by the authorities.
The building, the La Rochelle, a block west of Central Park, is an 11-story prewar complex with grand columns at the entrance.
What is possessing people to do this?
This is sickening. I am angered by ignorant and prideful people opening themselves up to spirits of death and getting hurt.
And I am more angry at religious churches blinding people to waste time worshiping popes and saints but not teaching them access the power of Jesus to break the power of death on their lives.
Another set of children dead and they didn’t even have a fighting chance.
Liberals were right to kick God out of schools and society. It’s done wonders for both.
This has nothing to do with liberalism. Bad things like this happen to people regardless of their views or beliefs.