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A West Valley City mother has been charged with attempted murder on allegations she stabbed her two children.
In charges filed Tuesday, police wrote that they arrived at the home of Mary Galvis, 47, on Saturday morning to find her 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son bleeding from multiple stab wounds.
Galvis' husband was holding her down on the floor, yelling: "She stabbed my children. She was going to kill them herself," police wrote.
The 10-year-old, identified in charges as C.P.J., had been stabbed in his chest, forearm, the side and back of his thigh, and three times in his knee. The 12-year-old, identified as M.A.P., 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.
Galvis was charged with two first-degree felony counts of attempted murder.
Erin Alberty