{"id":342305,"date":"2026-09-09T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:24:09","slug":"ailing-nyc-woman-who-stabbed-health-aide-wants-out-of-rikers-but-prosecutors-say-attack-was-no-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342305\/","title":{"rendered":"Ailing NYC woman who stabbed health aide wants out of Rikers — but prosecutors say attack was no accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ailing Upper East Side woman accused of stabbing her home health aide<\/a> was wheeled into court hooked to an oxygen mask at her arraignment Wednesday \u2014 as her attorneys argued that she\u2019s too sick to stay at Rikers Island.<\/p>\n

\u201c(She\u2019s) literally bent over 45 degrees from physical illnesses,\u201d defense attorney Toni Messina cried about wheelchair-bound Barbara Salberg, 66, who pleaded not guilty to stabbing her 54-year-old female aid in a ritzy Upper East Side co-op building on Aug. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upper East Sider Barbara Salberg, 68, was seen hooked to an oxygen mask as she was arraigned on attempted murder charges Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

Salberg \u2014 who apparently battles lung disease, blood disorder and other ailments \u2014 was trying to make a bid for home detention, as she remains locked up on $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n

Manhattan prosecutors told Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Cori Weston not to be fooled by the elderly woman\u2019s appearance, saying she had every intention of killing her poor aide.<\/p>\n

Manhattan prosecutors said Barbara Salberg told the victim that she was going to \u201ckill\u201d her. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201c(She said), \u2018This is the knife I\u2019m going to kill you with,\u201d Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Kaleigh Shea said, as prosecutors tried to increase Salberg\u2019s bail to $200,000.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors also said the crazed woman also called the victim a \u201ccrazy b\u2013ch\u201d after stabbing her in the abdomen, calling the attack \u201cclearly intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new details come after Salberg allegedly knifed the home aide in the stomach in a first-floor apartment at 210 East 73rd St. after the pair argued over an oxygen mask, sources had told The Post.<\/p>\n

Salberg, who appeared frail as she blew kisses to family seated in the audience, claimed she\u2019s not getting the care she needs at the city\u2019s notorious jail, and has relatives who could take care of her, her attorney argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe can\u2019t get around, she\u2019s not going to run away,\u201d Messina said of her client.<\/p>\n

Salberg\u2019s attorney said she\u2019s too sick to remain at Rikers Island. Steven Hirsch for NY Post<\/p>\n

Salberg is facing charges of attempted murder in the second degree and attempted assault in the first degree.<\/p>\n

The judge decided to stick with $100,000 bail for now, but said that she would consider house arrest with electronic monitoring at a future court date.<\/p>\n

Salberg faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of attempted murder.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s due back in court on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ailing Upper East Side woman accused of stabbing her home health aide was wheeled into court hooked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[177,75,84,83,4327,57,9,24,63,2442,466,58],"class_list":["post-342305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-dementia","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342305","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=342305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}