Queens dad advised younger sons to buckle their seat belts earlier than working down his spouse with SUV then stabbing her: prosecutors

A deranged Queens dad ordered his three younger sons to buckle their seat belts earlier than working down his spouse because the boys watched in horror from inside his SUV, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

“I hit my spouse, arrest me,” suspect Stephen Giraldo, an MTA bus driver, advised police in an admission caught on physique digicam footage, in response to prosecutors. Minutes earlier, Giraldo had dialed 911 to admit “I feel I killed my spouse,” prosecutors stated at a Queens Legal Court docket arraignment Wednesday the place the accused killer was ordered held with out bail.

His spouse Sophia Giraldo, a home violence survivor, was combating for her life Wednesday after her estranged husband allegedly ran the helpless girl down earlier than leaping from the automobile to stab her Tuesday in a wild early morning assault witnessed by the couple’s children outdoors her Flushing dwelling.

Sophia Giraldo, the 41-year-old host of a podcast on home violence the place she shared particulars of her troubled marriage, remained in crucial situation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens at some point after the assault.

The sufferer described herself in an Instagram bio as a survivor of home violence and hosted the “Unfiltered and Free” podcast the place she shared tales of what she referred to as her poisonous and abusive marriage. The couple was married in 2009 however the brand new bride quickly realized the couple had issues, she recounted in an episode simply two months in the past.

The sufferer lastly filed for divorce earlier this 12 months, courtroom papers present, and a Fb submit indicated she and the three boys had moved right into a home violence shelter in 2019.

“I spent a very long time within the thick of emotional unrest, a whole lot of toxicity, a whole lot of abuse,” she recalled in a single episode. “One of many issues I believed was ‘Am I prepared to let my youngsters develop up in toxicity simply to have a male within the dwelling?’”

Stephen Giraldo was arrested Tuesday and charged with tried homicide, assault, legal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a kid.

In accordance with cops, 36-year-old Stephen Giraldo noticed his spouse outdoors the home and plowed into Sophia with their three boys driving inside his SUV. When the automobile flipped on its facet and skidded to a halt, the husband allegedly climbed from the wreckage with a knife to stab his spouse of 13 years, authorities stated.

The couple’s three boys, ages 6, 9 and 11, escaped harm within the crash, officers stated.

The suspect was suspended with out pay from his job as an MTA bus driver pending an investigation, authorities stated.