Mom Stabs 3 Over Gossip About Her Pre-teen's Breakup

A mom in Placentia, California stabbed three women after hearing smack talk about her 12-year-old son's breakup32-year-old Diana Rodriguez was arrested last week for her part in a stabbing stemming from a case of love gone wrong. But it wasn't her love that made her pick up that knife with the four-inch serrated blade and stab three women--it was the love lost between her 12-year-old-son and his 12-year-old ex-girlfriend.

After some kids at the Whitten Community Center in Placentia make some remarks about her lil' Romeo and his recent break-up, Rodriguez arrived at the Center to be confronted by three women who were somehow affiliated with her son's tween-aged ex. As a comeback, Rodriguez produced the knife and stabbed the women. According to KTLA, "one of them was stabbed four times and the other twice," and all three were taken to area hospitals for treatment.

Rodriguez now faces being charged this week "with attempted murder at most and assault with a deadly weapon at a minimum" for the stabbing.

Photo of a totally unrelated knife by Dave of wikiHowl via Flickr

Comments (4) [rss]

what an ominous knife!

(and what a crazy lady)

Anyone want to take stab as to what made her so upset? Maybe the other women were remarking about her son not cutting it for the girl?

This total reminds me of Scream 2

"Was that a negative, disparaging remark about my son? About my Billy?...Randy spoke poorly of Billy and I got a little knife happy." - Debbie Salt

I wonder how many women in prison are avenging moms? I smell a new cable reality show...

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