Woman charged with stabbing 11-year-old boy in Austin

CHICAGO - A Chicago woman was charged with stabbing an 11-year-old boy last week in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Alexis Patton, 23, was arrested Sunday in connection with the stabbing of a boy Friday in the 200 block of North Leamington Avenue, according to Chicago police.

The boy suffered minor injuries in the attack, police said.

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Patton, who lives on the same block where the stabbing occurred, was charged with aggravated battery of a child under 13 causing great bodily harm.

She is due in bond court Tuesday.