NYC girl, 12, left clinging to life after stepfather’s stabbing rampage that also injured her mom: cops

A 12-year-old girl is clinging to life after her stepfather stabbed her in the head — and also attacked her mother in a terrifying rampage as screams echoed through their Bronx building earlier this week, cops said Friday.

Joshua Burnside, 28, repeatedly knifed the pre-teen in the head and slashed her on the face during the burst of violence around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday inside the family’s apartment on East 173rd Street near Boone Avenue in Charlotte Gardens, police said.

He also stabbed his 31-year-old wife in the stomach and slashed her on the face, authorities said.

A neighbor down the hall said in Spanish that she heard the family’s screams as the armed stepdad allegedly unleashed the cold-blooded attack…

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