New York Daily News

Slash tot out of hosp

- Rafael Lebron describes attack on Jenny Aquino and little Bella PerezAquin­o (inset). Chelsia Rose Marcius and Graham Rayman

A BRONX TODDLER rescued by a good Samaritan after she was slashed by a blade-swinging nut was released from the hospital Thursday, neighbors said.

Three-year-old Bella PerezAquin­o was treated for a knife wound to one arm and released, but her mother, Jenny Aquino, 37, remains hospitaliz­ed at Lincoln Medical Center with two stab wounds to her stomach.

The mom and daughter were at their Cauldwell Ave. home in Woodstock when Christian Valdez, 28, bashed in their apartment door at 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

Valdez stabbed them both and chased them onto their third-floor fire escape, cops said.

Neighbor Rafael Lebron, 45 heard the commotion, grabbed a porcelain lamp and bashed it over Valdez’s head. Another neighbor scrambled up the fire escape ladder and lowered the little girl to safety. Aquino knows Valdez, who is homeless, from church and occasional­ly lets him stay with her. Valdez was charged Thursday morning with assault, burglary, child endangerme­nt and harassment, police said. He was being treated at Bronx-Lebanon Medical Center.

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