Wallkill woman charged after stabbing daughter in chest in family dispute

A 42-year-old woman was taken to Bon Secours Community Hospital in Port Jervis with a stab wound to the right side of her chest, and that hospital treatment quickly pushed a violent family dispute in Wallkill into a criminal case.

Town of Wallkill police said they were contacted at about 8:18 p.m. Thursday, May 14, by the Port Jervis Police Department after the injured woman was being treated in Port Jervis. From there, investigators traced the alleged assault back to 385 East Main Street in Wallkill, where they say Gaia E. Frising, 65, attacked her daughter inside a private home.

Frising was charged with assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. She was arraigned in Middletown City Court before Judge Steven W. Brockett and remanded to the Orange County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash bail, $10,000 secured bond or $10,000 partially secured bond.

The case highlights how quickly a domestic confrontation can become a cross-municipal emergency when a weapon is involved. Police in Port Jervis and Wallkill had to connect the hospital treatment in one city with the alleged scene of the assault in another, a process that depended on immediate communication and follow-up investigation. In Orange County, that kind of coordination is often what turns a medical report into a criminal case.

The Town of Wallkill Police Department maintains a public media-release page with recent arrest and incident reports, showing the Frising case was handled through the department’s normal public-information process. For Wallkill and the surrounding area, the episode is another reminder that family violence can surface as a neighborhood safety issue long before anyone outside the home sees it.