Updated: Thursday, 12 Nov 2009, 5:42 PM CST
Published : Thursday, 12 Nov 2009, 7:00 AM CST

KRISTINE GALVAN
Reporter

ANDREA WATKINS
Reporter

HUMBLE, Texas - Deputies say a woman is under arrest, accused of stabbing two children multiple times in a home near Humble.

Detectives with the Harris County Sheriff's Office say the victims are a 10-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl.

Officers responded to a 911 call by a neighbor who said that a woman was beating on the front door of a home at the 8200 block of Greens Road and yelling at the neighbor that she had "stabbed the children."

When investigators arrived, they found Regina Umagat, 28, lying on the driveway with her hands behind her head. Deputies say Umagat told them that she stabbed the children and that they were in a home across the street.

The children were not inside the home when deputies entered.

Dispatchers told deputies that two children were in the Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital with multiple stab wounds. Deputies learned that the children were taken by family members to the hospital.

Life Flight helicopter was then contacted to transport the children to Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.

Deputies questioned a family member who had been watching the children but would not say how the children were related to that family member, nor would they discuss a possible motive.

CPS case workers say the has been able to talk to them about the attack that left him with 14 stab wounds.

He told investigators Umagat grabbed him while he played on a computer and started to stab him. He said he pleaded with her to stop, opened his eyes and saw her walk out of the house, so he jumped up and locked the door behind her.

The little boy said he then ran to a bedroom where he discovered his sister also had been attacked. The little girl was stabbed in the lung, face and head and remains in critical condition.

CPS investigators have yet to decide whether they'll seek custody of the children. The kids' grandparents told caseworkers they had been raising the siblings because their biological parents struggle with a drug problem.

Umagat has been charged with two counts of injury to a child with serious bodily injury and is being held in jail without bond.

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