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A West Valley City mother pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges in connection with stabbing and wounding two of her children at their home in September.

Mary Galvis, 47, was initially charged with two counts of first-degree felony attempted murder.

On Monday, Galvis pleaded guilty in 3rd District Court to two counts of second-degree felony aggravated assault.

She faces up to five years in prison on each count when she is sentenced March 23.

According to charges, Galvis on Sept. 13 stabbed her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son multiple times.

Police arrived to find the woman's husband was holding her down on the floor, yelling: "She stabbed my children. She was going to kill them herself," according to charges.

The boy had been stabbed in his chest, forearm, the side and back of his thigh, and three times in his knee. The girl was stabbed twice in the upper chest and suffered a collapsed lung.

Officers found "a large amount of blood on the floor" and two knives, one of which appeared to have blood on the blade, the charges state.

In jail documents, police wrote that a third child suffered minor injuries while trying to take the knife away. A teenage girl at the house was not injured.