65-Year-Old Arrested After Cops Say She Stabbed Her 42-Year-Old Daughter In Chest

WALLKILL, NY — An emergency room visit turned into an investigation into a knife assault that followed a mother/daughter dispute, according to police in Orange County.

The Town of Wallkill Police Department says that the department was contacted Thursday night by the City of Port Jervis Police Department about a 42-year-old woman, a Town of Wallkill resident, who was being treated at Bon Secours Community Hospital for a stab wound to the right side of her chest.

Investigators from the Town of Wallkill Police Department Patrol and Detective Bureaus said that the victim had been assaulted at a home on East Main Street, in the Town of Wallkill.

The victim's mother, 65-year-old Gaia E. Frising, also a Town of Wallkill resident, was arrested and charged with second-degree assault; and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

She was arraigned in the City of Middletown City Court and remanded to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash bail/$10,000 secured bond/$10,000 partially secured bond.

Frising is scheduled to appear in the Town of Wallkill Justice Court on Wednesday.