Update: Officials suspect that the residence was used for so-called birth tourism — to house women who traveled to the United States to give birth to children to secure them American citizenship. Read more. Kayla Cho woke up shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Friday to the sound of screaming coming from a home on the block where she lives. Another neighbor, Mike Hsu, heard loud thuds. Soon the frightening noises turned into a cry for help from what neighbors described as a day care in a red brick townhouse in Queens. “A woman was screaming, ‘Help me! Somebody just help me!” Ms. Cho said. Moments later, the police swarmed the block and discovered a ghastly scene: three infants, including a 3-day-old, and two adults, had been stabbed by an employee who then cut her own wrist. The employee, Yu Fen Wang, 52, of Queens, was charged Friday night with five counts of attempted murder, the police said. A motive for the stabbings was unclear. She remained hospitalized on Saturday.<doc-sep>Three newborn babies were in critical condition after being stabbed along with two adults at a New York City day care center run out of a house Friday morning, police said. A 52-year-old woman, who works at the Flushing, Queens, day care center, was in custody at a nearby hospital, according the the New York Police Department. Authorities found her unconscious in the basement of the house with a self-inflicted wound to her wrist after the attack, which happened before 4 a.m., police said. The suspect later regained consciousness, said NYPD Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes. She was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation on Friday, the Queens District Attorney's Office said. A motive has not yet been determined. A meat cleaver and a butcher knife were recovered at the scene, police told NBC News. The three girls stabbed are a 13-day-old, a 22-day-old and a 33-day-old. Police originally said the youngest victim was 3 days old. Two of the babies were stabbed in their stomachs, and the 22-day-old was stabbed in her ear, lip and chin, according to the New York Police Department. "There was one child more seriously injured than the other two," but all the babies were in critical but stable condition Friday morning, Holmes said. A 63-year-old female day care worker was also stabbed, as well as a 31-year-old man. The worker was stabbed eight times, and was in surgery Friday morning. The man, who was stabbed in the leg, is believed to be the father of one of the children at the center, but it wasn't clear if any of the wounded infants belonged to him. The day care was operating out of multi-family house under the name Mei Xin Care Inc., according to NBC New York. Mei Xin Care is licensed as a business, according to New York Department of State documents, but it was not licensed to operate as a day care at that address, New York's Office of Children and Family Services said in a statement. "OCFS is saddened by this horrific situation and investigating it as a possible illegal operation," the statement said, adding that state-regulated child care facilities are prohibited from caring for babies less that six weeks of age without extenuating circumstances and OCFS approval. The only reported incident the city has on record for the address is a noise complaint about children screaming in 2011, police said.<doc-sep>
All five victims were transported to area hospitals where they remain in serious but stable condition Three infants and two adults were stabbed early Friday morning during an altercation inside an overnight child care business run out of a home in Queens, New York, a police source tells PEOPLE. All five victims were transported to area hospitals where they remain in serious but stable condition, the source confirms. The children range in age from 3 days to 1 month old, authorities said at a news conference Friday morning. The stabbing unfolded shortly before 4 a.m., says the police source. The 52-year-old suspect — a woman who worked at the facility, in Queens’ Flushing neighborhood — has been apprehended, but formal charges have not yet been filed against her, according to the source. The suspect’s name has not been released. The source tells PEOPLE the assailant, armed with a kitchen knife, stabbed a female co-worker before going after the babies. • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter. A father of one of the young victims was also stabbed in the leg during the attack, police said at Friday’s news conference. The second adult, a woman, was stabbed in the torso. The female suspect was located by responding officers in the home’s basement, according to the source. Authorities believe the business was unlicensed. PEOPLE learns the suspect is being treated for several stab wounds to one of her wrists — injuries that the police source confirms were self-inflicted.