Woodbury woman charged with assault, attempted murder of kids

A Woodbury woman has been charged after allegedly hurting her two kids, one critically.

Court records show 32-year-old Sadiyo Ibrahim Mohamed is charged with one count each of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault.

A criminal complaint states Woodbury officers were called to Lake View Alcove at about 12:45 a.m. Wednesday on multiple reports of a woman chasing a child down the street and a child screaming. Officers arrived a few minutes later and found a 6-year-old child running away from his mother, who was identified as Mohamed. Officers noted Mohamed was staring off into the distance when they first contacted her and she was saying an unknown Somali phrase repeatedly.

1 child in critical condition, another hurt, woman arrested in Woodbury

Officers arrested her and put her in the back seat of a squad car. The complaint states Mohamed slipped out of the handcuffs at one point but officers were able to get them back on her after a minor altercation.

Officers then heard people yelling that there was a dead child in the street. The complaint states officers found a girl, around 5 or 6 years old, lying in the street with a puddle of blood coming from her head and minor cuts and abrasions to her face. Officers found the girl’s pulse but she wasn’t responding to stimulus, questions or touch.

Both the girl and the 6-year-old boy were taken to a hospital. The boy had a severely bruised arm and a large contusion on his forehead while the girl required emergency surgery and was in critical condition with a skull fracture, brain bleed, lacerated liver and broken ribs, the complaint states. Officers also found a child around 1 or 2 years old in the apartment who appeared to be unharmed.

On the sidewalk, officers found a long, skinny piece of wood next to a pool of blood.

In an interview with police, the complaint states Mohamed said she had a mental illness and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but was off her medications for a couple months. She added that she’d been paranoid and hallucinating for a couple days and believed her kids were playing games on her, and she "wasn’t sure if her kids were the devil or a demon, which made her question if she should hurt them or not."

The complaint notes Mohamed had been hospitalized in the past for mental health reasons.

Several neighbors told police they heard a child screaming for several minutes and hearing the sound of slaps or thumps, the complaint states. Another reported talking to the boy, who was shaking uncontrollably and said his mother hit him and his sister.

A detective and social worker spoke with the boy at the hospital, the complaint states, and the boy said they didn’t know why his mom was mad but she was saying she didn’t trust his sister as she hit the girl.