By Mother Forgives Daughter After She Stabbed Her, Nearly Killing Her
A daughter who stabbed her mother in a heated row was lucky not to have murdered her.
Paige Gaffney, 18, admitted to wounding her mum in their Scunthorpe home due to being resentful of her unhappy childhood.
Judge Mark Bury told how Gaffney was 16 when the stabbing took place, two years prior on October 11, 2017.
The judge said the daughter had suffered an unhappy childhood.
Craig Lowe, prosecuting at Grimsby Crown Court explained that the mother was cooking supper when she checked on her daughter in her room, shocked to find her playing with razor blades.
Taking them from her, she was then followed by her daughter into the kitchen where she then grabbed a 19-cm kitchen knife, one being used to chop the vegetables for supper.
Returning to her bedroom with the knife, she was followed by her concerned mother.
After a heated row which resulted in Gaffney pulling her mother’s hair, she then plunged the knife into her unsuspecting mothers chest from behind,
offering no assistance when her brother attempted to help their mum.
Gaffney was seen go up and kick her mother twice in the head before wiping the knife clean and throwing it out the bathroom window.
When emergency services arrived, the mother-of-five refused treatment and said she did not want her daughter to get into trouble.
The court heard she had suffered from a 2.5 cm cut to her liver.
The daughter told Humberside Police the mother had stabbed herself, however a forensic expert dismissed the accusation,
explaining the stab wound was aimed downward and could not have been inflicted by the mother.
Fortunately, it is known that she has made a swift recovery.
In the mum’s victim impact statement,
she admitted she was desperate to have a relationship with her daughter again.
As well, she said she just wanted to hug her,
explaining its horrible not having contact and how her life has gone downhill these past two years.
Including this, she does not want to put a restraining order on her daughter.
Gaffney is shown to have some stability in her life now, living with her partner and his family with an opportunity for an apprenticeship.
The Judge told Gaffney that her mother wanted a relationship with her and in time no doubt they will,
though it depends on if she can show everyone she had changed,
explaining that if her mother could forgive her for this, she can forgive her mother for the past.
Concluding, the Judge sentenced Gaffney to 18 months in a young offenders institution, suspended for 18 months and to do 200 hours of unpaid work.
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