A woman was rushed to the hospital Saturday after being stabbed with a box cutter during a domestic situation in Miami, according to Miami Fire Rescue. Fire rescue officials said the woman was transported for treatment, but no other details about the circumstances of the attack have been released.
The stabbing was first reported by NBC 6 South Florida. Police said officers responded to Northwest 12th Avenue and 61st Street after reports of the domestic-related incident. The relationship between the victim and the person accused of wielding the box cutter remains unknown.
Reports identified a box cutter as the weapon. Under Florida Statute § 784.045, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon is a second-degree felony carrying up to 15 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. If the case is ultimately prosecuted as domestic battery involving physical injury, state sentencing guidelines outlined by Richard Hornsby Law require a mandatory minimum of five days in jail, completion of a mandatory 29-week Batterers’ Intervention Program, and a permanent criminal record that Florida judges cannot expunge.
A Pattern of Severe Domestic Stabbings in Miami-Dade
This case follows a string of violent domestic incidents across the county in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a 75-year-old Miami-Dade man was arrested on attempted felony murder and domestic battery charges after police said he stabbed his sleeping wife in the back and repeatedly punched her before she managed to disarm him, as Hoodline previously reported. That same week, a Miami man was stabbed twice in the chest near NW 7th Avenue and rushed to Jackson Health System’s Ryder Trauma Center, Miami-Dade County’s only verified Level I trauma facility, which admits roughly 3,500 emergency trauma cases annually, about 30% of them involving penetrating injuries like stabbings and gunshot wounds…