An 18-year-old man is being held in jail on a $5 million dollar bond after being accused of stabbing a pregnant woman because he didn't want to be a father. (WUSA 9)

An 18-year-old man is being held in jail on a $5 million dollar bond after being accused of stabbing a pregnant woman because he didn't want to be a father. (WUSA 9)

An 18-year-old Montgomery County man was ordered held on $5 million bond Thursday after he allegedly used a kitchen knife to repeatedly stab a pregnant woman because he didn’t want to be a father.

The suspect, Dakota Brothers, tried to kill the 19-year-old and end the pregnancy during an attack Wednesday afternoon in a wooded area, according to a police affidavit and Montgomery prosecutors.

The woman had been six months pregnant with their child, according to authorities. She was taken to a hospital and underwent two operations. During the second procedure, the baby’s heart rate was lost and an emergency Caesarean section was performed, according to the court records and prosecutors.

The condition of the baby girl remains extremely critical. “It is literally minute-by-minute,” Assistant State’s Attorney Sherri Koch said in court Thursday.

She said that under Maryland statute, there are laws against manslaughter or murder of a viable fetus. “We may have more than one victim” as it relates to more charges, Koch said.

Dakota Brothers was charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of a pregnant woman. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Police)

The 19-year-old mother has stabilized in the hospital, Koch said.

Koch asked District Judge James B. Sarsfield to set no bond in the case, meaning Brothers would not be allowed out of jail pending further court proceedings.

Katherine Mathews, a public defender representing Brothers, asked for a $100,000 bond. She noted that Brothers had turned 18 just five days before the incident and had no prior criminal record. She told Sarsfield that her client was a high school student and part-time lifeguard. He was enrolled at Albert Einstein High School, which is close to the scene of the attack. She said that his mother and one of his eight siblings were in the courtroom in support of him.

“He comes from a very close family — a family that has grown up here in Montgomery County,” Mathews said. “Speaking with his family, this is a complete aberration and a shock.”

Mathews said her office is looking into her client’s possible ­mental-health issues.

Sarsfield set the bond at $5 million.

Police caught Brothers on Wednesday shortly after the incident. He was charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder and one count of ­first-degree assault in connection with the 19-year-old.

The police affidavit, filed with the court, lays out the plan that detectives contend Brothers executed, in which he allegedly lured the victim into a wooded area several blocks northwest of downtown Wheaton. The detectives based their affidavit on statements from the victim in the hospital and from Brothers after he was apprehended.

The exact relationship between Brothers and the victim remained unclear. She told detectives that he was the father of the child. He told detectives that they were no longer dating. Police officials said they were known to be in a relationship of some kind.

According to the affidavit, Brothers learned over the summer from the woman that she was pregnant with his child. Other people contacted him as well and “harassed” him about the pregnancy, he allegedly told detectives. He began to contemplate killing the pregnant woman and ending the pregnancy, according to the affidavit.

On Wednesday, Brothers armed himself with a green kitchen knife from his home — along Lydia Street, in the county’s Aspen Hill area — met with the woman and walked with her to a path in the wooded area, according to court records. They had consensual sex, according to the affidavit, before Brothers allegedly choked the woman, “strangled her unconscious and then stabbed her several times about the upper body and neck region,” detectives wrote.

During the assault, Brothers saw several people he thought were members of the MS-13 gang, became frightened and fled, according to the court records.

Around this time, police and medics received a 911 call about a woman being stabbed in the area. She was taken to a hospital. Before going in to emergency surgery, the affidavit states, she identified Brothers as the assailant.

The police placed a lookout for Brothers and found him near his home. “As officers approached Brothers, he attempted to flee. After a brief struggle, he was taken into custody,” police said in a statement.

Detectives took him to a station and interviewed him.

“Brothers stated multiple times that he is not ready to be a father, has no interest in having a child, and has expressed this” to the woman, detectives wrote. “Brothers stated he wanted [her] and the baby to die as he is unprepared to be a father.”

Jennifer Jenkins contributed to this report.