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WEBVTT HER NEIGHBOR TO WATCH HER THREE CHILDREN. REPORTER: THESE TWO WOMEN ARE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS AND ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING THE OTHERS CHILDREN WHILE SHE WENT OUT FOR THE NIGHT. BUT IN THIS CRIMINAL COMPLAINT, POLICE SAY THE TEXT MESSAGES STARTED GOING BACK AND FORTH BEFORE IT ENDED IN A FIGHT ON THE STREET WITH A FLYING STEAK KNIFE. HALEY OGLIETTI HAS THE CUTS AND SCRATCH TOES SHOW FOR THE FIGHT SATURDAY MORNING. >> SHE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT GRABBING A KNIFE, SOMEBODY TOOK ME OUT HOUSE AND SHE CAME OUTSIDE WITH A KNIFE, AND I SAID ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO STAB ME? REPORTER: 27-YEAR-OLD OGLIETTI SAID HER NEIGHBOR, JUSTINA HARRISON, AGREED TO WATCH HER NIECE AND CHILDREN SO SHE WOULD CENTER A DRINK ON FRIDAY NIGHT. AROUND 1:00 A.M. HARRISON STARTED TEXTING THAT THE NIECE WAS CRYING AND SHE HAD TO COME HOME. WHEN OGLIETTI DID, 30 MINUTES LATER, SHE CLAIMS HARRISON WAS AT HER HUSBAND AND HER KIDS WERE ALONE. >> I THOUGHT HI COULD TRUST HER, WHEN I LEFT HER AT MY HOUSE, SHE WAS IN MY HOUSE. SO LIKE I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S MY -- I MEAN I GET IT, BUT I DON'T. I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S MY FAULT. REPORTER: THE TWO WOMEN GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT WHICH LED TO A PHYSICAL FIGHT OUTSIDE AFTER SHE SAID HARRISON BROUGHT OUT A STEAK KNIFE. >> I WAS STANDING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STEPS AND SHE TOSSED THE KNIFE, NOT TOSSED IT BUT LIKE SHE THREW IT STRAIGHT DOWN THE STEPS AT ME. REPORTER: HARRISON TOLD US OFF CAMERA THAT SHE JUST SEND THOSE TEXTS TO GET OGLIETTI HOME. BOTH WOMEN ARE FACING SEVERAL CHARGES. WE DID ASK JUSTINA HARRISON IF SHE'D LIKE TO TELL US HER STORY ON CAMERA, BUT SHE DECLINED OUR REQUEST. BOTH ARE SCHEDULED FOR FLIM HEARINGS IN THE COMING DAYS.

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A Vandergrift woman and her next-door neighbor are both facing charges after a night out ended in a fight in the front yard. Haley Oglietti, 27, said her neighbor, Justina Harrison, agreed to watch Oglietti's two young children and her infant niece while she went out for a few drinks. Around 1:07 a.m. on Saturday, Oglietti received a text from Harrison that said her niece wouldn't stop crying. Oglietti said she told Harrison that she would finish her beer and return to her Lowell Street home. Oglietti said she went directly to Harrison's house at 1:35 a.m. and saw Harrison in her own home instead of at Oglietti's home with the children. Oglietti was escorted out of Harrison's house by a third person, and the two women started to argue, police said. Oglietti said Harrison came outside with a steak knife. "She said something about grabbing a knife. Somebody took me out of the house, and then she came outside with the knife. I said, 'Are you really going to stab me?'" Oglietti said. "I was standing at the bottom of the stairs. She threw (the knife) straight down the stairs at me." Harrison declined to speak to reporters on camera but said she threw the knife into the grass. Harrison said she never left the three children alone and said she did so only to get Oglietti to come home. Vandergrift police arrived as the women were fighting. Both are charged with endangering the welfare of a child, among other charges. "I'm irritated with the situation because I thought I could trust her. When I left her at my house, she was at my house. I don't understand how that's my fault," Oglietti said.