"My ex-boyfriend stabbed me 24 times whilst our six-day-old daughter was sleeping next to us"
A mum said she is "haunted" after her ex-boyfriend stabbed her 24 times while their six-day-old baby was sleeping in the cot next to them.
Clarissa Price, 28, was at home with baby Remie when then-boyfriend Roy Summers, then 18, launched his attack.
After becoming enraged over a conversation he mumbled "why do you have to make me so angry?" according to reports, and turned off the lights, and shoved her on the bed.
Police said he stabbed her "close to 20 times" with what was believed to be a box cutter, but a weapon was never found - before turning on Clarissa's mum Wendy Damiani, 48, who was watching TV.
He stabbed her "just as many times" - including in the neck and chest - according to reports based on court documents.
All the while babe Remie was asleep and Clarissa said she played dead - and could see her own blood splattered around the room.
She escaped, crawling out of a window to get help.
Roy was jailed for between six and 20 years - and is still in prison.
Clarissa Price, 28, was at home with baby Remie when then-boyfriend Roy Summers, then 18, launched his attack.
After becoming enraged over a conversation he mumbled "why do you have to make me so angry?" according to reports, and turned off the lights, and shoved her on the bed.
Police said he stabbed her "close to 20 times" with what was believed to be a box cutter, but a weapon was never found - before turning on Clarissa's mum Wendy Damiani, 48, who was watching TV.
He stabbed her "just as many times" - including in the neck and chest - according to reports based on court documents.
All the while babe Remie was asleep and Clarissa said she played dead - and could see her own blood splattered around the room.
She escaped, crawling out of a window to get help.
Roy was jailed for between six and 20 years - and is still in prison.
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00:00 I was just laying on the bed watching a movie.
00:03 Roy then went into his duffel bag and was shuffling around.
00:07 He had pulled something out and put it in his pocket.
00:09 He then began pacing around the room and he started mumbling to himself.
00:14 And he said, "Why do you have to make me so mad?"
00:17 Was all I could really grasp.
00:19 I got an eerie feeling in my gut and I wanted to leave the room.
00:23 So I tried to do so.
00:25 When I tried to leave, I pulled open the door and he shut it right in front of me.
00:31 And turned out the lights and started pushing me into everything in the room.
00:36 Eventually we had made it to the bed and I landed face down and he landed on top of me.
00:43 He then started what I presumed to be hitting me.
00:46 But come to find out, a few minutes later I realized he was stabbing me.
00:51 I could see the blood splatter onto the off-white curtains.
00:56 There was a nearby night light on which allowed me to see that blood splatter.
01:02 Which was important because I knew I had to do something or I may not make it.
01:09 I started to slowly slide off the bed to try and get out from underneath him without trying to provoke him.
01:16 I also was trying not to scream because I had just put my newborn to sleep.
01:21 And I was worried if I had awoken her, he would hurt her.
01:26 There's no way I can fight back because I'm scared I'm going to make him even more mad.
01:31 And at this point, there's complete silence in the room.
01:34 And he's not saying anything to me. He's not yelling at me. Nothing.
01:39 So I'm trying to figure out how to get out of this situation.
01:44 And the pain is so bad, I really need to scream.
01:48 Right when I'm about to scream, my mother can hear all the ruckus that's happening.
01:52 She says, "What's going on in there?"
01:55 He then stops and walks over me and then into the living room.
02:00 When I hear her gasp and scream, I assume that she has seen the blood on him.
02:05 And realized what he had just done. Something terrible.
02:10 And I assume the boyfriend and him were fighting now.
02:13 I assumed her and the boyfriend stayed behind.
02:16 But it was only her in the living room, unbeknownst to me.
02:20 And he was actually stabbing her.
02:22 Thinking the boyfriend was out there and she would have enough time to escape or call the cops,
02:28 I was able to get out of my window and go to a neighbor's house to seek help.
02:33 He eventually left my mom when her phone started to ring.
02:37 He walked out the door and she was able to call 911.
02:43 Medics and cops arrived on scene.
02:46 They had taken me to the closest trauma center over in another state,
02:51 who was more equipped to deal with what had just happened to my mother and I.
02:55 He had transported Roy to a different hospital where he would be then transferred to jail.
03:03 It was hard to come back from mentally and physically as I just gave birth.
03:09 I was postpartum going through all things pregnancy and postpartum related.
03:16 Now dealing with the wounds that I had to recover from.
03:21 And then also the mental and emotional trauma.
03:25 Trying to comprehend how any of that just happened.
03:29 The fact that my mom was hurt and my newborn baby was there.
03:34 And now I'm left to be a single mother at 18 years old.
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