Child sex offender allegedly slashed ex and pushed her onto subway tracks in front of her kids

NEW YORK (TCN) -- A convicted child sex offender faces charges after allegedly trying to kill his ex-girlfriend by slashing her and pushing her onto the subway tracks in November.

According to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, on the night of Nov. 5, Michael Blount approached his ex and her teenage daughters in a Harlem deli after he had repeatedly called her. The woman reportedly avoided her ex-boyfriend’s attempts to talk to her and exited the deli with her children.

Blount reportedly followed the victim and her daughters to the stairs of the nearby A-train station before going back to the deli, where he bought a razor blade. Blount then allegedly approached his ex and her daughters in the subway, pulled the victim by her hair, and tried to cut her neck with the blade.

Prosecutors said Blount’s ex-girlfriend attempted to fight back and stopped him from getting to her neck. During the attack, she sustained slashes to her face. Blount is accused of then pushing the victim onto the subway tracks with both hands. One of the victim’s daughters reportedly pulled her mother away from the tracks around two minutes before the next train entered the station. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. said the daughter’s actions likely saved her mother’s life.

Blount fled the scene after the incident.

A bystander called for transportation services to take the victim to the hospital, where she underwent plastic surgery for her injuries.

According to the district attorney’s office, after the incident, Blount avoided arrest while also "calling, texting, and harassing the victim and her daughters." He was eventually apprehended on Dec. 28.

New York State Sex Registry records show Blount was previously convicted in 2015 for criminal sexual act and rape of a 12-year-old girl and was sentenced to seven years in state prison.

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