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Police have filed an attempted murder charge against a man they allege assaulted the mother of a three-year-old boy before walking to a home and stabbing the sleeping tot multiple times.

Daniel Jensen, 33, of Winnipeg was arrested on Wednesday.

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“I think it’s inconceivable to think that somebody would target an innocent child, probably one that was attempting to sleep at that time of night, very defenceless,” Const. Jay Murray said Thursday.

Murray said Jensen and the mother previously were in a relationship, but he is not the child’s father.

Police say Jensen and the boy’s mother got into an argument early Wednesday morning and the woman was assaulted.

Police believe Jensen then walked to a north-end Winnipeg home where the boy was and stabbed him multiple times.

“A lot of people are having a hard time grasping that somebody would be capable of doing something like this,” Murray said. “It’s very hard to believe.”