A drunk 55-year-old childminder stabbed a 13-year-old boy in her care after he refused to stop playing his X-Box, a court heard on Monday.
Isobel Mackenzie lunged at the young boy in the abdomen with a kitchen knife - endangering his life - after they rowed about the computer game, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.
The boy appeared in the dock and said Mackenzie was drunk when she attacked him at a house in the Highland capital on December 29 last year.
He said he was playing his X-Box in the living room when she arrived at the house drunk.
The teenager, now 14, told a jury: "She told me go upstairs and I had to unplug the X-Box and carry it to the bedroom to play there."
However, he later wanted to look up 'cheat codes' on the Internet, which help players progress on computer games.
The boy said he returned to the living room and connected to the Internet, but was told to turn it off by Mackenzie.
He told the jury: "She hit me on the back of the head. I stood up and pushed her back. We started fighting. We were punching and kicking each other."
However, he said the physical fight stopped after two minutes and the teenager resumed to working on the computer.
When he started playing the X-Box again, the boy said Mackenzie switched the computer off and pushed him back in his chair.
The teenager added: "I stood up and switched it back on. She pushed me back down on the chair. I saw she had a knife. I got up and tried to push her back, and then got stabbed."
The boy told the court the assault was deliberate and not accidental, adding: "She lunged at me."
Mackenzie from Inverness, denies two charges of assault.
She is accused of assaulting the teenager by striking him on the head with her hand.
She also faces a more serious charge of assaulting the teenager by striking him on the body with a knife to his injury and to the danger of his life.
Mackenzie has admitted wilfully neglecting the youngster by being in a drunken state while the boy was in his care.
The trial before Sheriff Margaret Neilson continues.
