A South Carolina woman was charged with murder this week after she allegedly stabbed her newborn son with a letter opener.

Easly Police Chief Brandon Liner said that An T Ngo had the baby, cut the umbilical cord, stabbed the child repeatedly with the letter opener, then put the body in a trash bag in another room, WYFF reported.

“Ms. Ngo did have the baby in the apartment,” Liner said during a news conference. “It is very apparent that Ms. Ngo is the one that tragically murdered this child.”

“I will be honest with you. I’ve been doing this two and a half decades, and I’ve never seen anything this gruesome,” the chief said. “I’ve never seen anything this bad.”

Ngo was arraigned on a charge of homicide by child abuse and ordered held without bond.

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[Featured image: An T Ngo/Pickens County Detention Center]