Kalihi woman, 41, charged for trying to strangle her 2 kids

A 41-year-old Kalihi woman was charged at 6:15 p.m. Saturday with trying to strangle her 8-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son on July 20.

Kaui Jan Scharsch is charged with one count of abuse of a household or family member and one count of domestic violence involving strangulation, according to Honolulu police.

She was arrested at 1 p.m. July 25 after turning herself in at the Honolulu Police Department’s Alapai Headquarters located at 801 South Beretania St. She is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.

On July 20 at 9:57 a.m., the two children told police that their 41-year-old mother tried to strangle them.

Scharsch was sentenced to two years probation in 2022 after pleading no contest for violating a temporary restraining order, according to state court records. Scharsch was granted early release from the terms of her probation on Nov. 7, 2023.

A “cooperative safety plan” had been in place for one of Scharsch’s two children as recently as 2023, according to state court records.