A young mother from Texas has been arrested after she brutally
attacked her 4-year-old son, leaving him in critical condition. Jenea
Mungia, 23, stabbed her son multiple times with a gardening tool. She also physically abused him in other ways. The majority of
the assault took place in the family’s home in Houston, but Mungia finished her
attack in the driveway, according to ABC. She was finally caught by a
FedEx driver who happened to be passing by during the attack. “I thought she
was giving him CPR,” he said. “But then she started slamming his head on
the edge of the concrete driveway.”
Police had to pull the mother off of the young boy when they
arrived at the scene to stop her attack. According to one deputy, Mungia was
naked from the waist up when they arrived. When the woman refused to relent,
one cop was forced to kick Mungia to get her off the child. She was then
arrested and charged with injury to a child.
“The boy suffered multiple stab wounds to the
torso, contusions to the head from blunt force trauma and his genitals were
partially mutilated,” prosecutors say. He is being treated at
Memorial Hermann Hospital.
Mungia is being held without bail as police further
investigate the incident. A friend of Mungia has said that the mother has
struggled with post-partum psychosis since the birth of her child. Authorities
have ordered the mother to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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