Mom needs more than 100 stitches after husband slashes her in front of children
Patricia Woody’s estranged husband John waited near her lower East Side apartment and slashed her repeatedly with a razor in front of their three children, after clogging the keyhole on her front door with slivers of wood.
By Alfred Ng AND Rocco Parascandola / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 10, 2013,
Police were alerted when Patricia Woody’s neighbors heard her children screaming. A Manhattan woman needed more than 100 stitches after her abusive husband repeatedly slashed her in front of their terrified young children, police sources said Tuesday.
John Woody, 40, laid in wait for his estranged wife, Patricia Woody, 33, to return to her apartment in the Riis Houses on the lower East Side Monday evening. He apparently used slivers of wood to clog the key hole on the front door, a police source said.
As she struggled to get the door open, Woody pounced, a second source said.
“She was trying to get the door open with the key when her husband came up behind her with a razor,” the source said. “He cut her across the head, face, neck and back.”
The three horrified children ran for help.
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Patricia Woody’s slash wounds required more than 100 stitches and staples at Bellevue Hospital.
“We heard the kids running out, knocking on every door asking for help,” a neighbor said. “No one else answered, so I opened the door and I ask what’s going on and he tells me, ‘My dad’s stabbing my mom,’ so I called 911.”
When police arrived, one of the children, a boy believed to be about 6, ran outside.
“He was screaming at the officer, ‘My dad stabbed my mom! My dad stabbed my mom!’ ” the neighbor said.
The suspect fled the scene in a stolen car, police said, but was taken into custody late Tuesday .
The wife was treated at Bellevue Hospital, where doctors needed more than 100 stitches and staples to close her wounds, another source said.
The attack violated an order of protection — the second time the suspect has violated such an order
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