{"id":19954,"date":"2025-10-28T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19954\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:45:07","slug":"bronx-girl-12-stabbed-by-stepdad-survives-surgery-to-remove-nail-he-hammered-up-her-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19954\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx girl, 12, stabbed by stepdad survives surgery to remove nail he hammered up her nose"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 12-year-old Bronx girl cops say was stabbed by her stepfather survived risky emergency surgery to remove a screw he then hammered up her nose<\/a> into her brain \u2014 and her arrested attacker has attempted suicide, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a miracle she made it through,\u201d a law enforcement source said of the girl\u2019s surgery.<\/p>\n

The explosion of violence began about 11:15 p.m. last Wednesday during a clash inside the family\u2019s sixth-floor apartment on E. 173rd St. near West Farms Road in Crotona Park East, just across the street from Starlight Park<\/a>, officials said.<\/p>\n

Suspect Joshua Burnside had just moved into the apartment a few weeks ago with his stepdaughter, his 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter and his 31-year-old ex-wife, neighbors said. The ex-wife is the mother of all three children.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe violence began on Oct. 22 during a violent clash inside a sixth-floor apartment on E. 173rd St. near West Farms Road in Crotona Park East in the Bronx. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

During a heated argument, Burnside\u2019s ex-wife picked up a knife to defend herself but he grabbed it out of her hands and stabbed her in the stomach and slashed her face with it, cops said.<\/p>\n

When his ex-wife fled out of the apartment, Burnside turned on his horrified stepdaughter, who witnessed the attack on her mom, stabbing her multiple times in the body, face and head, according to cops.<\/p>\n

The ex-wife, from outside the apartment, heard her daughter\u2019s screams for help, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy child! My child! Give me my child!\u201d the bleeding woman screamed through the closed door, a neighbor said.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The mom) was knocking on everybody\u2019s door looking for help,\u201d said a neighbor on the fifth floor who did not want to be named. \u201cHer face was slashed and she was stabbed in the abdomen. She said she had been attacked, (that) it was her ex-husband and her kid might be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

After stabbing the girl repeatedly, Burnside hammered a long screw up her nose into her brain, officials said.<\/p>\n

Responding police took Burnside into custody without incident and charged him with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n

He was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and made a suicide attempt, which has delayed his still-pending arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

His ex-wife was taken to Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where they were treated for minor injuries. Her two younger children, who were not harmed, were taken to the same hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n

The stepdaughter was taken to\u00a0Cohen Children\u2019s Medical Center<\/a>, where she underwent the emergency surgery to remove the screw. She remains in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe violence began on Oct. 22 during a violent clash inside a sixth-floor apartment on E. 173rd St. near West Farms Road in Crotona Park East in the Bronx. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Burnside was not on any of the paperwork connected to the apartment and was not supposed to be living there, a staff worker for the building said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey only recently moved in,\u201d the worker said. \u201cIt was supposed to be only her and the children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old Bronx girl cops say was stabbed by her stepfather survived risky emergency surgery to remove a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-19954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}