"John" LEWIS - 13 yo - Red Bluff/ Redding CA

http://www.redding.com/news/2011/dec/13/mother-arrested-after-boy-slashed/

RED BLUFF — A 40-year-old Red Bluff mother was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder and felony child abuse after she admitted to slashing her 13-year-old son's neck with a knife, police said.

Theresa Marie Lewis was booked into Tehama County jail, Red Bluff police said.

Officers said they went to a South Jackson Street apartment around 1 p.m., after receiving a report of a teenage boy who had possibly overdosed on pills and had a cut on his neck.

When officers arrived at the apartment, they found the teenager with a severe cut across his throat and neck, police said. Lewis admitted to having inflicted the cut, they said.

The boy, whose name was not immediately released, was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff before being flown by helicopter to Enloe Medical Center in Chico.

Police said his condition was not known.

A search warrant was obtained for the apartment and police said they are continuing to process the alleged crime scene for evidence.

During their investigation, police said, it was determined that Lewis had first attempted to kill her son on Monday by giving him an overdose of unknown pills.

A similar attempt was made Tuesday before she slashed the boy's throat, police said.

The police investigation is in its early stages and police asked anyone with information to call them at 527-3131.