Man stabs wife, then hands knife to 2yo son: "Now you stab Mommy."

Man stabs wife, then hands knife to 2yo son: "Now you stab Mommy."
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Cops: Man stabs wife, asks tot to join

BRIDGEPORT — A city man stabbed his 17-year-old wife multiple times and then handed the knife to his 2-year-old son telling him, "now you stab Mommy," police said Monday.

Fermin Rodriguez, 21, was charged with first-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree unlawful restraint and threatening. Police would not say whether the child obeyed his father.

His wife, Keyschla Rodriguez, was being treated at St. Vincent's Medical Center for stab wounds to her chest, face, arms and legs.

Fermin Rodriguez, of Maple Street, was later arraigned in Superior Court.

Assistant State's Attorney Judy Stevens urged Superior Court Judge Earl Richards to set a high bond. "This man attempted to disfigure his wife," she said.

The judge agreed and ordered Rodriguez held in lieu of $350,000 bond. He continued the case to March 21.

According to police, late Sunday night the defendant and his wife got into an argument when he began accusing her of cheating on him.

Police said Fermin Rodriguez then picked up a kitchen knife and began slashing and stabbing his wife. At one point he grabbed her around the throat and began roughly cutting off her hair.

After the victim lay on the floor bleeding from her many wounds, police said, the defendant handed the knife to their young son and told him to stab his mother. Relatives are taking care of the child.

The victim was taken to the hospital by her father.