{"id":391999,"date":"2025-11-20T10:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:29:26","slug":"eight-year-old-girl-defends-family-stabs-intruder-at-clay-county-home-jacksonville-woman-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/391999\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old girl defends family, stabs intruder at Clay County home, Jacksonville woman arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clay County authorities released additional details about an attack at an Orange Park home Monday that resulted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/news\/local\/jacksonville-woman-accused-attempted-murder-clay-county-arrest\/4D5BWBT7UFCXVCQ4ATZS64RNKI\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jacksonville woman being arrested;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacksonville woman being arrested<\/a> and charged with attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect, Serpil Adams, 62, showed up to the home of the victim &#8211; her estranged daughter &#8211; in the 600 block of Reese Avenue in the Oakleaf area, a Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff\u2019s office responded to a call from the home at about 3 p.m. &#8220;The caller, later determined to be the victim, could be heard yelling for an individual to leave her home,&#8221; the news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was home with her two daughters when Serpil, her estranged biological mother, came in through an unlocked door and attacked her daughter with a serrated utility knife, the news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhile attempting to protect her mother, the victim\u2019s 8-year-old daughter retrieved a kitchen knife and stabbed Adams in the upper arm,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Adams left the home and returned to Jacksonville where she was staying with a friend. Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested her at that home at about 1 a.m. without incident, the news release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim and children were not injured. Adams remained in Clay County jail Thursday morning on half a million dollars bond.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Jacksonville woman accused of attempted murder in Clay County arrest\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8853dce8be856f35e4978d1c49d01d97.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville woman accused of attempted murder in Clay County arrest<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE &lt;&lt;&lt;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clay County authorities released additional details about an attack at an Orange Park home Monday that resulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,15015,3188,723,7310,11301,186358,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-391999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-clay-county","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-release-states","14":"tag-serpil-adams","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115581562418637417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}