BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- A grand jury will consider whether to indict a woman accused of stabbing her young nieces while she was baby-sitting.

Defense attorney Jeanne Mettler said Friday that prosecutors have 45 days to make their case against 39-year-old Lisa Turkki before a Westchester County grand jury.

Turkki, of East Syracuse, is charged with assault. She allegedly stabbed her 7- and 9-year-old nieces on July 31 at their home in Katonah, across the street from Martha Stewart's estate. The girls survived.

No motive has been mentioned.

At a hearing Thursday night in Bedford Town Court, Mettler waived Turkki's right to a felony hearing. That prevents prosecutors from outlining their case in public at the hearing.

Turkki is receiving psychiatric care in prison.

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