Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Staff report
NILES
Kelsey M. Winn, 18, of Forest Ridge Court in Mineral Ridge, was released from the Trumbull County jail Tuesday after posting $7,500 bond, charged with cutting a boy, 13, with a kitchen knife Monday night.
A not-guilty plea to felonious assault was entered in Niles Municipal Court on Tuesday for Winn. If convicted, she could get up to eight years in prison.
Weathersfield Township police said they were advised the boy was walking in the Forest Ridge Apartments at 7:30 p.m. with three other boys when Winn yelled at him, “Who wants to get cut?” while holding a large knife.
The boy, also of Mineral Ridge, said he walked up and put his hand out, “thinking she was joking,” and she cut him across his wrist, causing him to bleed, police said.
The cut was not deep enough for stitches, police said. He left and told his mother, who called 911.
Winn told police she asked the boys if they wanted their hands chopped off, and the boy placed his hand in front of her, so she placed the knife on his wrist.
She said she and the boy pulled away at the same time, but she didn’t mean to cut him and didn’t know he had been hurt.
Winn was taken to the Trumbull County jail, and she gave her mother permission to care for her three children.
Winn told the officer she had the knife because a friend’s children were refusing to do their chores, saying their arms were broken and needed to be chopped off.
Winn said she got the knife from her home and “jokingly told the kids she was going to cut off their arms,” police said.