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BURLEY — Police say a man stabbed a woman and goaded her 2-year-old son into kicking and stabbing her.

David James Gifford, 36, is charged with felony counts of domestic battery, injury to a child and attempted strangulation.

Deputies were called about 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving to a mobile home on East 16th Street in Burley where they found Gifford running from the home. After a brief chase, deputies lost him.

A woman at the house took deputies to the victim, who was lying on a couch in the living room with stab wounds on her back, marks on her neck and face and fresh blood on her clothing.

She told police Gifford grabbed her hair and was pulling her around, tried to choke her, kicked and punched her and stabbed her with a knife.

The woman said Gifford also told her 2-year-old son to kick her and to stab her with the knife, which the boy did.

Gifford told her that he was going to have her 2-year-old “kill her.”

Police say the boy stabbed her twice on her right shoulder. The woman also had bruises along her arms and legs, around her eye, nose and her throat.