Lansdale woman gets probation in box cutter attack

Charlene Carter, 50, pleaded guilty to four summary counts in connection with November domestic incident

NORRISTOWN » A 50-yearold Lansdale woman was recently sentenced to probation after admitting to slashing a man with a box cutter during a domestic altercation last year, according to court records.

Charlene Renee Carter, of the first block of North Richardson Avenue, appeared in Montgomery County court and pleaded guilty to four counts of summary harassment in an agreement in which several misdemeanor counts — including simple assault, reckless endangerment and possession of an instrument of crime with intent — were downgraded to summaries, records show.

Carter was sentenced to four consecutive terms of 30 days of probation and ordered to seek domestic violence counseling, records indicate.

Lansdale police had said in an affidavit of probable cause that on the night of Nov. 4, 2016, cops responded to Carter’s residence for a report of a domestic disturbance involving a man and a woman, and made contact with Carter and the male, the latter of whom had a bleeding five-inch laceration on his chest.

Carter told police she didn’t know how the man had sustained the injury, but stated that “it must have been when she pulled the boxcutters out from her purse and began swinging them at (him),” per the affidavit.

The man said that he had told Carter their relationship was over, at which point she struck him in the face, according to court documents. He said that after being hit in the face he grabbed Carter and pushed her onto the bed in self-defense, and then she pulled out a boxcutter, the affidavit indicates. Police said he stated he didn’t notice he had been wounded until later.