PEMBROKE PINES — A expecting female is guiding bars after she allegedly attempted to kill her unborn child and her baby’s father on Sunday.
Debra Whiteman, 24, was arrested Sunday night on attempted murder and aggravated battery rates.
In accordance to an arrest affidavit and push release, Pembroke Pines Law enforcement officers responded to experiences of a domestic disturbance at a residence in the region of NW 88th Avenue and NW 8th Road. On arrival, the adult victim instructed law enforcement that he was stabbed by his girlfriend — later on identified as Whiteman.
During the investigation, it was unveiled that the sufferer and Whiteman experienced been in a intimate romantic relationship for the final yr and experienced lived collectively for the past eight months with other household members. According to the push release, Whiteman is at present 39-weeks pregnant and that the target is the baby’s father.
In excess of the past two to a few months, Whiteman allegedly tried to terminate her possess being pregnant by taking pills, ingesting liquor and punching herself in the abdomen, the push launch said.
On Sunday, Whiteman and the victim acquired into an argument, main her to threaten to depart the house to harm the unborn baby. The sufferer instructed her that she was not permitted to leave in advance of likely into his bed room to just take a nap.
When the sufferer was sleeping, Whiteman walked into the bed room, holding a black folding knife, and approached the target as he laid asleep prior to urgent the knife into his belly underneath his tummy button. The action woke the victim up and he viewed Whiteman stabbing him, leaving him with a 1.5-inch laceration, the arrest affidavit said.
The target then known as for assist from just one of the family members members and attempted to grab for Whiteman’s hand to disarm her. She tried using to stab him again with more power on the other hand, he was able to control her and then punched her in the face.
When just one of the household members arrived into the space, they noticed the victim holding Whiteman when she nonetheless had the knife. The family members member was then in a position to disarm Whiteman prior to contacting 911, and left the knife on the kitchen area table.
The sufferer was transported to a nearby healthcare facility for the laceration, which was deemed non-everyday living threatening. Meanwhile, Whiteman was transported to yet another nearby hospital and is at present less than the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s supervision.
