Child, 9, watched as mom was fatally stabbed

When officers arrived, they found Diane Sharma, 32, with multiple stab wounds to her body. EMS responded and pronounced the victim dead at the scene, police said.

“He’s a brutal monster.” Sharma’s father, Mazuras Ali, 56, said of her killer.

Sharma’s 9-year-old daughter allegedly watched in terror as her stepfather, plunged a knife into her mother’s neck and chest, the paper said.

“He told [the child], if you scream, I’m going to hurt you,” Ali recounted.

The girl ran to the basement and called 911 and then her grandmother, who notified Ali. When he arrived at the house, he was unable to gain entry because, he said, the area had been cordoned off with police tape.

A trail of blood from the house and along the sidewalk allegedly led police to the accused killer. Ali said the NYPD asked him to identify the suspect at the scene and he did, stating that it was his son-in-law.

“I was totally shocked,” Ali said. “I never thought he could do something like this to her.”

Sharma had taken out an order of protection against the alleged killer in September after he had assaulted her, Ali said.

“He choked her and tried to strangle her,” he said.

Sharma’s two young sons, ages 3 and 4, who were also inside the house when the crime occurred, were not injured, Ali said. Sharma’s daughter was from a previous marriage.