Inset: Taylor M. Gosnell (Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The area in S.C. where Gosnell allegedly tried to kill her children (Google Maps).
A 35-year-old mother in South Carolina is accused of trying to kill her two young children over the weekend, allegedly injuring the kids with a knife and a “blunt object” inside their family home.
Taylor Morgan Gosnell was taken into custody and charged with two counts of attempted murder in connection with the attack on the children, ages 3 and 6, authorities announced.
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According to a news release from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a residence in the 1400 block of Bud Arthur Bridge Road shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 for a welfare check.
“Upon arrival, two juvenile children were located unattended and had suffered injuries that had appeared to have been caused by a knife,” the release states. “Both children were transported to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center to be treated and further evaluated.”
Investigators said they believed “during the night hours before the Sheriff’s Office was made aware of this incident, Gosnell had attacked her two children, 3 and 6-years-old, with both a knife and a blunt object.”
Both children remained hospitalized but were in stable condition and expected to recover from their injuries as of Sunday.
However, the 7th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said the 6-year-old suffered an injury to one of her arms that was so severe it may require amputation, Greenville, South Carolina, Fox affiliate WHNS reported.
Prosecutors also noted that the scene inside the home showed signs of a violent confrontation, including several shattered TVs and mirrors.
Gosnell arrived back home while police were still at the scene. She was detained and transported to a local hospital for an evaluation. While in transit, she reportedly attempted to flee the ambulance.
Gosnell was later transported to the Spartanburg County Detention Facility. She appeared before a judge for a bond hearing on Sunday and was ordered to remain in detention without bond, the sheriff’s office confirmed to Law&Crime.
The case was not Gosnell’s first involving allegations of harm to children. She was out on bond from a February 2024 arrest in which she was charged with two counts of unlawfully placing a child at risk of or causing harm to a child or willfully abandoning a child, local newspaper The State reported.
Her bond in that case was set at $5,000 on each count, and those charges reportedly remain pending.
Gosnell is scheduled to return to court for a first appearance hearing Nov. 12, court records show.
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