A Long Island home-healthcare agency has bizarrely claimed a dozing 84-year-old dementia patient is herself to blame for nearly being stabbed to death with a chef’s knife by one of its aides.
Aides at Home — the Hicksville nonprofit whose aide Amanda Fraser is facing attempted-murder charges in the October 2025 incident — argued in new court papers that elderly Wendy Wilson’s injuries were caused “in whole or in part” by her own “culpable conduct” and “without any negligence” by their staff — despite video apparently showing her sleeping and then being stabbed.
“The nerve of them to blame the victim when the video clearly shows Amanda Fraser and Aides At Home that hired her caused Wendy Wilson’s life-threatening injuries,” Wilson’s lawyer, Robert Brown, told The Post.
“They let Fraser be alone with Wilson — how could my client be culpable?”
The company’s seemingly bizarre defense was filed earlier this month in response to Wilson’s suit in April alleging negligence.
Wilson’s lawsuit also claims that Aides at Home, which employs aides in patients’ homes throughout New York City and Long Island, knew or should have known Fraser had violent tendencies toward patients before the attack.
Aides at Home denied all of Wilson’s allegations in its filing.
Fraser, 23, was indicted in November and could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted in the alleged crime that reportedly occurred in Wilson’s Massapequa home Oct. 29, 2025.
The aide was caught on video allegedly holding an 8-inch knife in Wilson for roughly 16 minutes, whispering for the elderly woman to “just let go” while also demanding that she look her in the eyes as she screamed in excruciating pain, according to footage viewed by The Post.
When Wilson didn’t die, Fraser allegedly pulled the blade from her patient’s torso and took off, leaving the elderly woman bleeding out at almost 2:30 a.m.
The elderly woman wasn’t found until hours later, at roughly 8:30 a.m., when officers discovered her clinging to life during a welfare check requested by a loved one.
She was rushed to Nassau University Medical Center for a puncture to her lung and remained in the hospital for about a week from an infection that stemmed from the stab wound, police said.
Fraser was arrested in her hometown of Queens on Oct. 29 by Nassau County cops and charged with attempted murder and a slew of other offenses.
“As her family, we just want justice for Wendy,” said Kery Kilgannon, Wilson’s son, to The Post.
“But the prosecutors have told us that it could be three to five years before we see a trial.
“Hard to believe that justice is so hard to come by,” Wilson’s son said.
Alejandra Gil, the lawyer representing Aides at Home who signed the filing, did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.