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Enraged by Pregnancy, Queens Man Slashes Wife
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Sabrina Jaszi
Published Mar 30, 2010
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A pregnant Queens woman, along with her twin sister, sought safety in a bodega last night after being violently attacked by her knife-wielding husband. Fitzgerald Jolly was allegedly furious that his wife Petrona Kates refused to have an abortion. "I guess he didn't want her to carry on with the pregnancy," a cousin told the Daily News, describing how the two women were assaulted in front of at least six children a Jamaica apartment around 8:45 p.m.
Kates, who was stabbed in the neck, and her sister, who suffered stab wounds in the stomach, are in stable condition, but Jolly is still at large. According to the cousin, he left the house, "dropped the knife in a neighbor's yard and jumped in his vehicle and drove off." Police found his vehicle abandoned on the Whitestone Bridge.
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