Grandmother charged with felony assault
Woman accused of slicing granddaughter’s ear
by Laura Adelmann
Thisweek Newspapers
An Apple Valley grandmother has been charged with felony assault for allegedly slicing her 12-year-old granddaughter’s ear after the child told her to “shut up.”
According to a Dakota County criminal complaint: Parbati Zimmerman Kalicharan, 64, became angry and ripped up and threw away puzzle pieces that her granddaughter had been playing with the evening of Aug. 28 at an apartment on the 7700 block of Whitney Drive.
Despite the granddaughter’s pleading to retrieve the box from the trash so she could finish the puzzle, Kalicharan ripped it into smaller pieces, then ripped all the pieces that were sitting on a mat.
The granddaughter hid under a table, and later when she went to the refrigerator, Kalicharan became angry and chased after the girl, who hid behind a couch.
Kalicharan, who had been slicing peppers, cut the girl in the ear, leaving a cut three-quarters of an inch long, the complaint said.
Apple Valley Police were dispatched to the apartment at about 7:50 p.m. Kalicharan told police that she threatened to hit the girl with the handle of the knife, but denied cutting her, the complaint said.
If convicted of the second-degree assault charge, Kalicharan faces a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison and a $14,000 fine.
A police spokesperson said the case is still under investigation.
Laura Adelmann is at dceditor@frontiernet.net.
