Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press




A Harrison Township mother is facing criminal charges after Macomb County authorities said she poured a bottle of urine over her disabled adult daughter and slid a knife across the back of her neck.

The woman is also accused of assaulting another adult daughter and a granddaughter with a knife and a pencil.

Angela Lenora Gay, 56, was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, a felony, and three counts of domestic violence, all misdemeanors, in the incident last week at her apartment, according to the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office.

She was arraigned Tuesday in 41-B District Court in Clinton Township, where a magistrate set a personal bond with the condition of no contact with her two daughters and granddaughter, the county prosecutor's office said in a news release Wednesday. Her next court dates are Feb. 26 and March 4.

Police were called to Gay's apartment at Metro Towers for a disturbance involving a knife. They said a woman told them that during an argument her mother tried to stab her with a pencil, then bit her hand, according to the release.

The daughter also said she found her sister, who uses a wheelchair, covered in urine and her mother standing over with her a knife.

That daughter said her mother took a full container of urine from their mentally-handicapped uncle and threw it all over her, calling her a "crippled b****," according to the prosecutor's office release. She told police her mother slid a knife against the back of her neck, causing a small — but visible — cut.

Prosecutor Eric Smith said he takes his role "seriously in protecting people in our special needs community, and this case is no different."

He said his office will be asking that the suspect receive a mental health evaluation.