A man has been charged with attempted murder after a nine-year-old girl was stabbed in Dorset earlier this week.
The man, a 28-year-old from Christchurch, is accused of stabbing the youngster on Tuesday evening at a home on Gilder Close.
A woman in her 50s was also arrested on suspicion of assisting him but has since been released.
The young girl remains in hospital for non-life threatening injuries and is expected to recover, officers said.