A Chesterton woman who the Porter County Sheriff’s Police said slashed a child’s wrists as well as her own in an apparent suicide attempt on June 10 has been booked into the Porter County Jail on a charge of battery with a deadly weapon, the PCSP.

Amy Lynn Denno, 37, of 127 Abbey Lane, was arrested on that charge at 2:01 p.m. Monday, police said.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed by Capt. Jeff Biggs of the PCSP, an investigation began after a child younger than 13 was treated at Porter hospital for knife wounds to the wrist. Also treated was Denno, who admitted inflicting those injuries on the child, Biggs stated.

Denno advised that “she had been depressed lately,” took the child with her to Indiana Dunes State Park, and there “used a small paring knife from her kitchen” to cut the child’s wrists and then her own, Biggs stated.

At some point the child was able to take the knife, throw it in the dune grass, and then persuade Denno to drive them both to the hospital, Biggs stated.

The child’s injuries required stitches, Biggs added.