Crime & Law

Mother Accused of Stabbing 7-Year-Old Son in Rogers Park Home

A Chicago woman is facing a felony charge after she allegedly beat and stabbed her 7-year-old son multiple times because she was upset about a mess she believed the boy caused in their Rogers Park home.

Llovana Torres, 26, has been charged with one count of aggravated battery to a victim under the age of 13. A judge on Monday ordered that she be detained in Cook County Jail pending trial.

According to Cook County prosecutors, Torres attacked her son Saturday morning at their home in the 1700 block of West Touhy Avenue. Prosecutors said Torres became angry after waking up and finding her son had caused a mess in the home after she’d spent the previous night cleaning.

Torres then allegedly approached her son and struck him multiple times before he fled into their kitchen and hid in a cabinet under their sink. After she failed to pull him out from this area, Torres allegedly grabbed a knife and stabbed the boy repeatedly until she heard him yell, “Ouch,” prosecutors said.

Torres then took the boy to another apartment in their building where Torres’ mother lives, and once that woman saw the boy had a stab wound to his abdomen, she ordered Torres to take him to a local hospital, prosecutors said.

Torres allegedly told her mother that she had threatened to “cut or stab” the boy if he refused to leave the cabinet. Prosecutors claimed that after she was arrested, Torres called her mother and ordered her not to tell anyone what had happened or to instead tell a “different story.”

Once hospitalized, the boy had to be airlifted to Lurie Children’s Hospital, where he underwent surgery to repair a ruptured diaphragm, according to prosecutors. He remains hospitalized with a ventilator as of Monday.

Following her arrest, Torres allegedly told police she’d been waving the knife around while trying to find her son in the cabinet and accidentally stabbed him.

She is due back in court for a hearing June 13.

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