Reyana Santiago, 17, Stabs Father, Sgt. Roberto Santiago, 39, After He Scolded Her For Talking Too Much on her Cellphone

Reyana Santiago, 17, allegedly stabbed her police-officer father, Roberto Santiago, 39, with a knife after he scolded her for talking too much on her cellphone, authorities said. She didn't like the fact that her father expressed his concern over her actions. There is a serious loss of respect for parents and just plain decorum in this country. We are slowly losing our value system and failing our young people in the process.

Sources said Reyana didn't like it when her dad, an NYPD sergeant with more than 15 years on the force, turned off her cellphone. They started arguing about it Halloween morning, they said. The quarrel escalated into a shouting match, with the petulant daughter shoving her father, sources said.

She then stormed off into the bathroom while her father prepared for his afternoon shift, law-enforcement sources said. But, moments later, she stealthily emerged from the bathroom, grabbed the sharpest knife in the kitchen, and allegedly attempted to carve her pop like a pumpkin. "We were fighting. I stabbed him twice with a knife," Reyana confessed to cops, according to court papers. "He wasn't doing anything before I stabbed him. I was angry." Police recovered a bloodied knife left on the kitchen counter. Source: NY Post

Roberto Santiago reportedly suffered two deep picture wounds on his upper left arm and was treated at Jacobi Medical Center and released. His daughter has been charged with misdemeanor menacing, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. She faces up to a year in prison if convicted. There is a propensity for violence among many of our young people and it is baffling. Not a day goes by when we don't hear about some teenager engaging in such violent act.