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Who gives someone a deck of cards before stabbing them? This lady apperently!


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Mom Stabs Son During Therapy Visit, Police Say
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By MIKE WELLS of The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 22, 2008

Updated: 05:08 pm

Without giving any warning, a Dunedin woman pulled two long knives from her purse and began stabbing her 15-year-old son during a court-ordered visit today at a Largo psychiatry office, police said.


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Celeste Grace Minardi

As of this afternoon, the boy, whose name was not released, was being treated at Bayfront Medical Center in critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery, Largo police Sgt. Mark Young said.

The attack happened at 10 a.m. at the offices of Ronald L. Knaus & Associates, 1301 Seminole Blvd., Suite 112, police said.

Celeste Grace Minardi, 55, of 1202 Fairway Dr., had been visiting her son at the office for the last three years, about twice a month, Young said. The teen's father has custody.

She has no criminal record and has never shown any violent behavior, Young said.

This visit didn't appear to be any different.

Minardi is the ex-wife of Timothy Driscoll, 47, a bankruptcy attorney in St. Petersburg. Court records show they filed for divorce in 2004 and had one child together.

The mother and son were sitting on a leather couch in the office, Young said. A nurse was about 6 feet away, typing on a computer.

Minardi usually brings small gifts for the teen, Young said. From her purse, she first pulled out a gift of cologne and then a deck of cards, he said.

"Then she pulled out two knives and started hacking away at her son," Young said.

One blade was a 15 1/2-inch decorative dagger and the other was a 12-inch drywall knife, he said.

Young said Minardi stabbed the boy in his lower abdomen, leaving a 4-inch gash and twice on his neck, leaving an 8-inch gash and a 3-inch gash. He also suffered a 4-inch gash above his right eye, just above the hairline.

The teen jumped up and tried to run away but collapsed in the lobby, Young said.

A doctor ordered her to drop the knives, pulled her away from the scene and secured the knives, he said.

When police arrived, the teen was covered in blood and slipping in and out of consciousness, Young said.

"He told me, 'My mom stabbed me,'" Young said. "Then he looks up at me and said, 'I don't ever want to see her again,' and then he passed out."

Minardi wouldn't say why she attacked her boy and would only answer yes or no when asked if she understood her rights as she was being arrested, Young said.

She was charged with first-degree attempted murder and booked into the Pinellas County jail shortly before noon, jail records show. Two additional charges of carrying a concealed weapon are pending, Young said.

Gah!



I had to laugh at him saying "I don't ever want to see her again", though. I know what he felt like.


Kind of reminds me when I was 13, and sitting on a step, and I told my Mother, "I don't ever want to see my Grandparents again." And she sat down on the step and put her arm around me and said, "That's alright. You don't ever have to."

His reason beats my reason though.

That's really cutting to the core of the matter.

True, she sliced her way through the competition though.

He was a prick, clearly.

I bet she stared daggers at him

That is more of a fork pun.




My mind is stuck on fencing terms, but seeing as how the teen didn't also have a knife, I got nothin'

She even looks like one of those female assassin characters from a movie, with a name like Lady Deathstrike or The Black Widow.

The sharpness of your wit is killing me.

This kind of crazy crap only happens in the good 'ol USA. Quite a slice of Americana.

I'm guessing her Indian name would be "Slaps it on with Spatula", or perhaps "Won't Use Moisturizer".