Prosecutors charge woman with murder of 6-year-old son; force of stabbing left tip of knife in skull

Prosecutors charge Sigal Yana Itzkovich, 33 with aggravated murder for the killing of her 6-year-old son Liam in Herzliya on July 16.

Charges are also submitted relating to aggravated assault, killing an animal, and obstruction of justice.

According to prosecutors, Itzkovich was alone with her son when she took a kitchen knife, stabbed her dog, and then stabbed her son to death dozens of times in the bathtub.

The intensity of the attack broke the knife, and left a tip of the blade in her son’s skull, prosecutors say.

Itzkovich then returned to kill the dog with a knife and axe, after hearing its wailing, the statement reads.

The accused washed the knife, changed clothes, and then walked toward the Seven Stars Mall in Herzliya, still covered in blood. On her way, she attacked a passerby and drove her axe into the hood of a car.

Arriving at the mall, she attacked a security guard who eventually subdued her, the statement says.