Sick new details have emerged in the horrific attack earlier this week on a gorgeous Bronx model and her young daughter, who was horribly injured — allegedly by her deranged stepfather.
The parent allegedly drove “some type of tool” up the 12-year-old girl’s nose, stabbed her and her mother, model Karizma Dabeny, The Post has learned.
The girl, whose name is being withheld because of her age, underwent surgery at Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center in Queens after the Wednesday night attack in the family’s apartment on East 173rd Street near Boone Avenue in the Bronx, police sources said.
A 12-year-old girl is clinging to life after her stepdad stabbed her inside the family’s Charlotte Gardens apartment Wednesday night, cops said. Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock“She’s not going to be right,” said a source, who described the object as a drill or screwdriver.
Joshua Burnside, 28, also allegedly stabbed the girl in the head, and plunged the knife into his 31-year-old wife’s stomach and slashed her face, cops said.
A neighbor said the desperate mom was knocking on doors following the terrifying episode, saying “Help me! Help me!” — and even asked him for a knife.
The girl’s 31-year-old mother was also knifed repeatedly during the burst of violence, cops said. Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock
Burnside was arrested and charged with was arrested and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child, police said. Kyle Mazza/Shutterstock“She’s bleeding from her head, she was showing us her stab wounds, she had a stab wound in her gut,” the neighbor, who requested anonymity, said.
“She asked for a knife, and I was like ‘No.’ We were trying to be helpful and mind our business at the same time, you know? We don’t want to bring problems.”
“We were the first ones that came out, other people came out,” the neighbor said. “Somebody else told her to go away.”
Bloody fingerprints could still be seen on a sixth-floor apartment door that was also dented at the bottom.
The 5-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl were sent to Jacobi Medical Center and are listed in stable condition.
The accused maniac was arrested and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child for the cold-blooded attack, cops said.
Those charges are expected to be upgraded to attempted murder, sources said.
Dabeny was “covered in blood,” the neighbor said.
“She’s saying, ‘Oh, I just got attacked. My husband of eight years attacked me,’” he recalled.
The neighbor, who said he was worried about his own kids, called 911.
“She ended up running back upstairs,” he said. “We called the cops, by the time they came, we just saw, like, the aftermath of them carting the kids off and the man and her. It was a horrendous and very sad situation.”
The mom’s ex-boyfriend, who met her when both of them lived in Philadelphia, was shocked to learn of the incident.
“He shouldn’t have done what he did,” the ex-beau, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
The young girl used to call him Daddy, the man recalled.
“He is a monster,” the ex said of the suspect. “When you do something like that, it means you’ve got a really serious problem. You were trying to kill them.”
It was unclear why the stepdad flew off the handle, cops said.
“This doesn’t make sense,” the woman’s ex lamented. “I don’t know what else to do but cry.”
Two younger children in the apartment, a 5-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl, are Burnside’s natural children and were uninjured, police sources said.
Burnside had an injury to his wrist and was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition. It wasn’t clear how he was hurt.
The knife was recovered on the scene, cops said.
