A woman who allegedly stabbed her sleeping ex-boyfriend 19 times with a pair of scissors claimed she was 'dreaming' as she carried out the brutal attack. Morgan Lund from Wisconsin pleaded not guilty on Monday after putting her actions down to mental disease or defect, the Daily Star reports.
Police discovered the mum drenched in the blood of her victim when they arrived at the couple's home in the city of Oshkosh just before 8am on the day of the incident. She was applying pressure to his wounds and told officers she had hallucinated a dark non-human figure and feared there was 'something wrong' with her brain.
Lund, who shares a child with her unidentified ex, alleges she woke at around 6.30am and took her baby into the living room where she found her ex partner asleep on the sofa. She left their child in a playpen before she went back to bed.
The court documents state: "She had a muddled memory of something that might have been a dream, or her imagination, but she thought [the victim] was yelling at their daughter."
According to Lund, she has been hallucinating the figure she allegedly saw for six months but on this occasion it was attacking her ex. She reacted by 'trying to kill' the figure but instead was attacking her ex-partner with a pair of scissors.
The victim told officers he fought Lund off after he awoke which is when she stated that she did not know what was happening and had been dreaming. After her ex asked her to get a towel, he recalled her saying 'something about, 'I don’t want to lose custody'.
The man suffered stab wounds to his chest, back, face, shoulders and hands and thought he was going to die from his injures. He also claims it was not the first time he had been violently attacked by his ex girlfriend and that they were 'constantly' arguing.
The court documents reported: "[The victim] stated that throughout their relationship Morgan was very abusive, hitting him on several occasions.
"He reported that they constantly fight and argue. He stated they argue on a daily basis, but [he] shuts the argument down because he does not want to be involved with her any longer.
"She has threatened him in the past, but has never threatened to kill him as far as he is aware."
Lund has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and is now being held on a $250,000 (£211,000) bond on a charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
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