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A six-year-old girl who was stabbed multiple times in her home Thursday is expected to recover physically from her injuries, police said Friday.

“She does remain in hospital receiving medical attention,” said Const. Ken Steeves. “She is expected to recover.”

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As medical staff worked to save the six-year-old girl and Londoners wondered how such an attack could happen for the second time in less than a year in this city, the little girl’s school community prayed for her recovery.

“She’s an absolutely adorable child, a sweetheart,” said Gabe Pizzuti, principal of St. Michaels Catholic elementary school, where the girl was a pupil in Grade 1.

“She is always engaged in play with her friends in the yard, she’s so happy and so caring.”

Emergency workers received a 911 call to a third floor apartment at 114 Arbour Glen Cres., just after 9 a.m. Thursday with a report that a child had been stabbed.

Officers in several cruisers raced to the scene as well as paramedics.