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Steven Bagu
By Forum Staff
A 30-year-old Brooklyn resident has been charged with attempted murder, assault and other crimes after stabbing his girlfriend’s 6-year-old child in the neck and then stabbing the child’s mother in the throat, when she tried to intervene. The double stabbing occurred early on Thanksgiving Day, Kew Garden Hills.
“The defendant in this case is accused of attacking an innocent child with a knife and then turning the blade on the girl’s mother when she tried to stop him. This was a heinous act of violence that put both victims at grave risk. The defendant is in custody and now faces spending decades in prison as punishment for his alleged criminal actions,” Acting District Attorney Ryan said.
Steven Bagu, 30, of Cozine Avenue of East New York in Brooklyn was arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Jeffrey Gershuny on a complaint charging him with second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault, first-degree attempted assault, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Judge Gershuny remanded the defendant and ordered him to return to court on February 13, 2020. On Thursday, November 28, 2019, between 2 and 4:30 a.m. the defendant’s girlfriend awoke to the sound of her daughter screaming. The woman ran into the living room where she saw Bagu standing over her 6-year-old daughter with a knife in his right hand. The little girl had been stabbed in the neck and was bleeding.
According to the complaint, child’s mother attempted to get to her daughter, but the defendant blocked her. She turned to go toward the door to get help but the defendant jumped in front of her and grabbed her. The woman repeatedly tried to escape until Bagu stabbed her in the throat with the knife.
For the next two hours, the defendant held both the woman and her daughter captive. Bagu fell asleep and the mother was able to escape the apartment and get to a neighbor’s apartment for help and called 911. Bagu was apprehended at the scene. Both victims were taken to nearby hospitals.
The child received stitches to close a puncture wound to her neck. Her mother underwent surgery after her trachea was punctured by the blade of the knife. If convicted, Bagu faces up to 25 years in prison.
