PSYCHO SITTER STABS BABIES
3 infants at illegal Qns. nursery critical Cops probe bizarre immigration scheme
A psychotic worker at a sham Queens day care center carved up three infants and two adults with a meat cleaver and a knife in a terrifying middleof-the-night rampage, cops said.
Deranged Yu Fen Wang, 52, began wielding the twin blades around 3:45 a.m. Friday inside the Mei Xin Care Inc., facility, where she slashed and stabbed a 13-day-old infant, a 22-day-old newborn and a 33day-old baby. Two adults, including a day care colleague, were also cut up as the woman ran amok through the apparently unlicensed facility before ending the carnage with a failed suicide try.
Almost as stunning was the story told by neighbors to police about the bizarre business operating on the first floor of the three-story Flushing residence.
Locals claimed the “day care” was actually was a temporary home for pregnant Chinese immigrants to deliver babies in hopes of leveraging the births into American citizenship. There were nine infants on site when the unhinged Wang, without provocation, began slicing her way through the nursery in the late-night darkness.
All three infants, though critically injured by the crackpot caregiver, were likely to survive — as were the two other stabbing victims, authorities said. City and state child care officials announced investigations within hours of the bizarre attack inside a building cited for three violations in the last two years by the Department of Buildings.
The sudden slashings ended when the attacker bolted to the basement, locked the door and hacked open her left wrist, said NYPD Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes, commanding officer of Queens North. Wang's bloody cleaver was found on a kitchen counter near the woman, and a bloody kitchen knife was found where the frenzied attack began on the first floor.
The wounded adults steered police downstairs, where the bleeding and unconscious woman was revived and taken to New York Hospital-Queens. In addition to her
injuries, Wang was undergoing psychiatric evaluation at the facility.
“We pray that all of the victims will be fine and will survive these injuries,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. “We are hoping these young babies — small and so very fragile — are also strong enough to overcome this horrible act of senseless violence.”
The tiniest stabbing victim, pierced in her upper body, was taken to Weill-Cornell Medical Center in critical condition. One of the other babies went to Long Island-Jewish Medical Center with wounds to her chin, right leg and ear, while the other was listed in critical condition at New York Hospital-Queens.
No criminal charges were immediately filed, and cops did not provide a motive in the case.
The state Office of Children and Family Services said the operation was apparently not a state-licensed or regulated child care operation. In fact, OCFS prohibits children under the age of six weeks from enrollment in day care without state approval.
“OCFS is saddened by this horrific situation and investigating it as a possible illegal operation,” the agency said in a statement. The city Administration for Children’s Services started looking into the business as well, according to a source.
Police sources said cops were told that pregnant Chinese women would come to the U.S., deliver their babies — making the infants citizens — then take them to the Queens building for post-birth care. The moms, after returning to China, would then apply for American citizenship based on the delivery of their child in the United States.
Authorities responding to the crime scene found 11 cribs inside the house, said prosecutor Brown.
The day care shared space with a residential facility, where the babies’ parents lived in the building as well, according to police sources. City records indicated the owners were named in three complaints over the last two years relating to alleged renovation of the property, with inspectors denied access to the property in two of the cases.
Last November, a neighbor complained part of the building space was used as a hotel. And in 2016, a pair of complaints from neighbors alleged illegal renovations without permits were underway on the building and that the basement and second floor were converted into rooms as if for a hotel.
The two adult victims were identified as a 31-year-old man stabbed in the wrist and the leg knee, and a 63-year-old gashed in the left leg and arm, sources said. Their injuries were also not life-threatening, and the woman was an employee of the business.