A 20-year-old Brick Township woman has been charged after allegedly stabbing her two-year-old brother in the chest on Saturday, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Marlene Rodriguez was charged with attempted murder, endangering the welfare of a child and weapons offenses, the prosecutor’s office said.

Police responded to a residence on Burke Lane in Brick Township at about 2:30 p.m. and found the child with a stab wound to his chest, authorities said.

According to officials, the child was taken to Jersey Shore University Hospital in Neptune, where he was listed in stable condition.

Rodriguez was taken into custody at Brick Township Police Headquarters. She was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where she is awaiting a detention hearing, the prosecutor’s office said.

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