Ryan Bourdon stabs wife while she was holding their child

[Sister Iroz]

Ryan Bourdon, Rebecca Bourdon

A man accused of stabbing his wife and two neighbors who came to help her faces an additional criminal charge Wednesday.

Ryan Bourdon, 25, is now charged with neglect or abandonment of dependent person.

Police said the additional charge is because Bourdon's wife, Rebekah, was holding the couple's chiild when she was stabbed.

On Tuesday, one of two Des Moines brothers who tried to save Rebekah during the domestic dispute said that the charges filed in the case were not tough enough.

K.C. Ablett said he is outraged that the man who stabbed him, his brother and a woman on Monday is only facing assault charges in the case.

Ablett said Ryan Bourdon didn't want to assault his estranged wife, Rebekah, when he began stabbing her, he wanted to kill her.

Des Moines police spokesman Sgt. Jeff Edwards said Bourdon, 25, and his wife, Rebekah Bourbon, 26, were in a domestic dispute when neighbors heard calls for help and tried to assist. The two brothers, K.C., 37, and Jason Ablett, 33, tried to help Rebekah, who was being held at knifepoint, police said.

"My brother heard a whole bunch of screaming and pounding so we went over there and Ryan was on top of Rebekah," said Ablett.

Ablett said Bourdon was stabbing Rebekah in the back over and over again.

"I tackled him, try to get the knife away, by the time he did that, he stabbed me in the arm, cut three veins and an artery," said Ablett.

KC said Bourdon stabbed him and his brother several times before they were able to disarm him.

"He told the cops that he's lucky that the neighbors came over because he wanted to kill her," said Ablett.

Ablett said this isn't the first time Bourdon abused his wife.

"He used to beat her, put her in the hospital. He has prior domestic abuses on her," said Ablett.

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Rebekah suffered eight stab wounds to her back and both of her lungs were punctured.

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The Polk County Attorney said Tuesday that he couldn't comment yet on the case. He said that as with every case, the County Attorney's Office and the police department talk to discuss what charges should be filed.

Ablett said it will likely be weeks before Rebekah is allowed to leave the hospital.

http://www.kcci.com/news/25688158/detail.html

[ImmortalOne]

Too bad they didn't accidentally slip when he was subdued and "accidentally" had his throat cut.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A 3-year-old girl told police after a series of stabbings Monday that "Daddy knifed Mommy but not me because he loves me." She said, "Mommy and Daddy are supposed to love each other, but they don't, and I don't know why."
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After police arrived and arrested Ryan Bourdon, 25, they talked to the child.

"She talked about how Mommy and Daddy fight and that she doesn't like it when they fight," Officer Larry VanGinkel said in a report. "I noticed blood on her hands and feet and asked if she was hurt. She responded, 'No, Daddy knifed Mommy but not me because he loves me.' "

VanGinkel wrote that when he arrived Monday morning he saw Jason Ablett, one of the neighbors, bleeding and being tended to outside. Ablett directed him to the Bourdons' upstairs apartment.

K.C. Ablett, the other neighbor, and Rebekah Bourdon were sitting at the apartment door and bleeding, VanGinkel wrote. Ablett told the officer that Ryan Bourdon was in the shower.

VanGinkel wrote that he was waiting for backup whenRyan Bourdon came out of the bathroom naked. "I took him into custody without incident," the officer wrote. "Once in handcuffs the suspect asked me to dress him since he 'will be spending the next few decades in prison.' " The officer wrapped a towel around him.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...-knifed-Mommy-