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A nanny, 35, has been charged in last week's fatal stabbing of a young girl's 83-year-old grandfather inside a Royal Oak home, police said Tuesday.

The nanny, Samantha Rae Booth, 35, of Chesterfield Township in Macomb County, was arraigned Tuesday in 44th District Court in Royal Oak on multiple charges including homicide--first-degree murder. She has no known criminal past and is being held in the Oakland County Jail.

Samantha Rae Booth, 35 (Police photo)

Royal Oak Police said the mother, who was out of town, had called her father David Ong, 83, of Bloomfield Hills around 7:50 p.m. Friday to check up on her three-year-old daughter.

Ong arrived at the home a short time later, but failed to update his daughter on the situation. So, she ca

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