A protective Michigan mother has been jailed after stabbing a woman who was fighting one of her adult daughters. Octavia Dickens, 57, from Detroit, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of a misdemeanor aggravated assault, and began serving a four-month jail sentence yesterday. Dickens said that she was defending her daughter, who was bleeding during the altercation that took place last November outside the family home. During the incident on November 3, Dickens said a group of people knocked on her door, and her two daughters, Shonta Thrash, 33, and the other daughter who has not yet been named, 20, opened it.
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Octavia Dickens from Detroit stabbed woman, 19, with small paring knife in the hand and abdomen
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She said she was 'defending her daughters', aged 20 and 33, who were 'attacked' by the 19-year-old, her sister and friend on November 3
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Dickens pleaded guilty to reduced charge of misdemeanor aggravated assault
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