Long Island home health aide accused of stabbing sleeping 84-year-old patient with chef’s knife

A Long Island home health aide allegedly stabbed her sleeping elderly patient with a chef’s knife and held the blade in her body for an “excruciating” 16 minutes, according to prosecutors.

Amanda Fraser, 23, was indicted on attempted murder charges for allegedly stabbing her 84-year-old patient as she slept in her Massapequa home in the early hours of Oct. 29, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly announced Friday.

Fraser, of Queens, allegedly entered the unidentified woman’s home around 2:08 a.m. and walked into her bedroom before forcefully plunging an eight-inch blade into her torso, an investigation and video evidence revealed.

The elderly patient woke up, “moaning in pain,” and tried to remove the knife from her body, authorities added.

However, Fraser allegedly held a grip on the knife handle and ominously told the patient, “Just let go,” and “stop fighting it,” while the blade was still inside her.

By 2:24 a.m., Fraser pulled the knife from the woman’s body and left her home, according to the DA.

When cops arrived hours later for a requested welfare check at around 8:30 a.m., they found the elderly victim bleeding from her stab wound.

She was rushed to Nassau University Medical Center for a puncture wound to her lung, authorities said.

“In the middle of the night as her elderly patient laid in her bed, this defendant allegedly brandished an approximately eight-inch blade and plunged it into the sleeping woman’s body,” Donnelly said in a statement.

“For an excruciating 16 minutes as the woman moaned in agony, Amanda Fraser – the woman’s home health aide – held the knife firm in her body and repeatedly whispered for the woman to succumb,” she said.

“When she did not die, the defendant left the home, and the woman she was employed to care for, bleeding and alone in her bed,” Donnely added.

“Families rely on the skill and compassion of home health aides to care for ailing loved ones. This defendant allegedly only brought pain and horror to their lives.”

The victim remained in the hospital for treatment of an infection that stemmed from the stab wound until this week, authorities said.

Police also discovered Fraser’s Dodge Charger parked in the middle of her patient’s front lawn, officials added.

The health aide was arrested in Queens later on Oct. 29 by Nassau County cops.

Fraser went to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation before she could be arraigned, sources told CBS.

Her employer, Aides at Home, told the outlet that the tragic stabbing was an isolated incident.

“The investigation is ongoing. We’re cooperating fully,” a manager at the Hicksville office told the outlet.

Representatives for Aides at Home did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.

Fraser was arraigned on Friday on indictment charges of second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, second-degree assault, endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, and endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, prosecutors announced.

She was ordered held without bail and will return to court on Dec. 9.

If convicted, Fraser faces up to 25 years behind bars, according to the DA.