NYC girl allegedly attacked by deranged stepdad had a tool driven up her nose: police

The 12-year-old girl allegedly stabbed by her deranged stepfather in The Bronx during a bloody rampage earlier this week was found with “some type of tool” driven up her nose, The Post has learned.The girl underwent surgery at Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center in Queens to remove the object after the Wednesday night attack in the family’s apartment on East 173rd Street near Boone Avenue in the Bronx, the sources said.“She’s not going to be right,” a source said.Her stepfather, Joshua Burnside, 28, allegedly stabbed the girl in the head, and plunged the knife into his 31-year-old wife’s stomach and slashed her face, cops said. A neighbor said the desperate mom was knocking on doors following the terrifying episode, saying “Help me! Help me!” — and even asked him for a knife.“She’s bleeding from her head, she was showing us her stab wounds, she had a stab wound in her gut,” the neighbor, who requested anonymity, said.“She asked for a knife, and I was like ‘No.’ We were trying to be helpful and mind our business at the same time, you know? We don’t want to bring problems.”“We were the first ones that came out, other people came out,” the neighbor said.

“Somebody else told her to go away.”The accused maniac was arrested and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child for the cold-blooded attack, cops said.Those charges are expected to be upgraded to attempted murder, sources said.The woman was “covered in blood,” the neighbor said.“She’s saying, ‘Oh, I just got attacked.My husband of eight years attacked me,’” he recalled. The neighbor, who said he was worried about his own kids, called 911.“She ended up running back upstairs,” he said.

“We called the cops, by the time they came, we just saw, like, the aftermath of them carting the kids off and the man and her.It was a horrendous and very sad situation.”The mom’s ex-boyfriend, who met her wh...