A horrifying case of domestic violence has left a 6-year-old girl clinging to life in Louisville, Kentucky, after authorities say her mother brutally attacked her with a hammer.
According to an arrest citation obtained by PEOPLE, officers from the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) were dispatched to a home on Wilson Avenue just after noon on June 19, following a report that a child had been struck in the head with a hammer.
When officers arrived at the scene, they discovered the young girl with catastrophic injuries — including multiple skull fractures and brain hemorrhaging.
The child was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she remains in critical condition four days after the assault. Due to the severity of her injuries, the LMPD’s homicide unit was called in to take over the investigation.
Later that same day, police arrested 40-year-old Zeinab Abdi, the child’s mother, on charges of attempted murder. According to the arrest report, the girl’s older brother witnessed the attack and provided a chilling account of what occurred. He told detectives that after the assault, as he physically restrained his mother, she allegedly said, “Let me finish her,” and tried to return to the injured child.
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