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   From: rogerb@supernews.com   
      
   On 11 Feb 2022, B1ackwater  posted some   
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   > A white liberal socialist Democrat family raises a psychopath.  Who   
   > knew?   
      
   Tiny Colts Neck, New Jersey, sits just 50 miles from New York City. But   
   it might as well be a world away. In July 2013, this quiet community was   
   rocked by news of a violent home invasion where the victim was stabbed   
   repeatedly. The only thing more shocking: the victim survived.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: My name is Donna Ongsiako. … I lost in total, close to   
   three quarters of the blood in my body. There's no earthly reason why   
   I'm alive. None.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: If I had asked you at the time to give me a list of 100   
   things you're worried about, where would have home invasion been?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Oh, no. Never.   
      
   Donna worked for a company that brokered fuel for ships on the nearby   
   Jersey shore. She and her daughter Kiersten lived in a farmhouse on the   
   edge of flower fields.   
      
   Kiersten Ongsiako: She was 20 when she had me. So, we're only 20 years   
   and one day apart.   
      
   Friend Sharon Sharpe hired Donna decades ago.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: Kiersten had just been born?   
      
   Sharon Sharpe: Yeah, Kiersten was a baby. … I thought she was really   
   brave … being a single mom … very young.   
      
   Kiersten Ongsiako: I was by her side all the time.   
      
   Kiersten, who now works as a welder, recalls what life was like just   
   prior to her mother's attack.   
      
   Kiersten Ongsiako: We were going to the gym multiple times a week. … Not   
   only was she, like, mentally strong, but she was physically strong.   
      
   Sharon Sharpe: She was so fit. She did Tough Mudders with Kiersten.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I like that competition … I like to show strength,   
   physical strength …   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Things couldn't have been any better at that time.   
      
   That's when Saturday of July Fourth weekend rolled around. Monmouth   
   County Detective Andrea Tozzi says they were having a heatwave.   
      
   Det. Andrea Tozzi: It was … humid. … But we had no … rain or anything   
   like that. … I mean it was a dry night.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: So, Donna — had her windows open.   
      
   Det. Andrea Tozzi: Yes. … She had her windows open … just to obviously   
   to circulate air.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Kiersten was out at a party. … So, I was home doing   
   laundry. … I'd say about 11:00, 11:30. I decide … I'm going to get ready   
   for bed. … I let the cat out. I went and brushed my teeth.   
      
   But just as she was drifting off to sleep —   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I heard what I thought was the cat. I heard something,   
   and I remembered, oh, I forgot to let the cat in.   
      
   Without turning on any lights, Donna headed downstairs to open the front   
   door for her cat.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: But instead, when I opened the door, I saw someone   
   standing there. … In the split second … after seeing this person on my   
   porch, I saw the knife. … He was trying to cut into the screen of the   
   window that was right next to the front door.   
      
   She says she didn't recognize the young white male standing right in   
   front of her, holding a large knife.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I tried to slam and shut the door. … My fingers were   
   protruding out. He stuck the knife through the opening and … cut my   
   finger so that I immediately let go of the door. And then he pushed his   
   way in.[…]   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I'm backing into my kitchen. We're face to face. … It   
   didn't register to me that he was actually going to stab me.   
      
   But without a word, that's exactly what the stranger did.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: He slashed my cheek. And you can see that here. And   
   actually, it starts back here (points to the right side of her face and   
   ear). … There was no way to process that that happened.   
      
   Donna's attacker came at her with the knife again.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: He then slashed three times on this side of my neck.   
      
   She tried grabbing the knife but only cut her own hand in the process.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: Did you feel like you were dealing with somebody who was   
   really strong?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: No. But I felt like he was very sure, like he was very   
   in control of himself.   
      
   Donna was starting to weaken from the injuries.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I felt like … my legs were going to give out. … So, I   
   braced myself against the corner of my bathroom … right next to the   
   front door.   
      
   Sure enough, she slid down to the floor.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I was in fetal position … and I'm bleeding. And he came   
   over and … it was kind of like he was playing, you know, with the knife   
   and just started jabbing at me. So, that's when he caught me here   
   (points to a scar near the left side of her mouth). Um, and he got me in   
   the back of my neck here (point to the back left side of her neck).   
      
   Finally, Donna's attacker spoke to her.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: This was when he decided ... to ask me for my car keys   
   and if I had a lighter …   
      
   Jim Axelrod: A lighter?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I just answered him. There's a lighter in my purse. And   
   my purse was on the table back in the kitchen. … So, he went over and   
   was rummaging through my purse and got the keys, got the lighter.   
      
   Donna's assailant ended up taking her entire purse with him, but not   
   before returning one last time to Donna, still bleeding on the floor.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: He said … "you dead bitch" and plunged the knife into my   
   chest.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: Once he plunges the knife in and then removes it? What does   
   he do then?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: He just walked out the door.   
      
   With no neighbors in ear shot, Donna knew she must get help — somehow.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: Your phone isn't in reach?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: No, my phone was upstairs in my bedroom charging.   
      
   Donna had no landline in the house. But even as the blood was draining   
   rapidly from her body, she had one pressing concern above her own   
   survival.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Kiersten could come home and find me. … I just didn't   
   want her to have to experience … any level of the horror that I had just   
   gone through or any other levels in finding me there dead.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: So, this is a mother's instinct as pure as it gets.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Yes, absolutely. Yeah.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: You know you have to get upstairs if you're going to be   
   able to make a call for help.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: Right.   
      
   Jim Axelrod: How do you get up those stairs?   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: That I don't know. … There was divine intervention that   
   helped me up those stairs. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.   
      
   AN INSPIRED CLIMB   
   Laurie Gerhardt: She's a tiny little woman. … You have to imagine … that   
   many stab wounds. And she just willed it. She was not going to die   
   there.   
      
   Former Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Laurie Gerhardt says Donna   
   Ongsiako was determined her daughter, Kiersten, would not come home to   
   find her dead. She knew she had to get to her cellphone upstairs.   
      
   Donna Ongsiako: I don't remember … my feet or my hands actually touching   
   the stairs. … The energy that it took for me to get up off the ground   
   and up those stairs. … I was definitely guided.   
      
      
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