NYC mom vomits as monster friend who stabbed her 22 times with young daughter in next room receives light sentence

A Bronx woman who was stabbed 22 times by her “monster” friend as her daughter was in the next room vomited as she learned her attacker would spend less than a decade in prison for the bloody attack.Kaitlynn Berman, 23, faced Christopher Joseph in Bronx Supreme Court Wednesday as a judge sentenced Joseph to eight-and-a-half years in prison for the March 2025 knife attack inside her Wakefield apartment.“This man, this monster, Christopher Joseph, should be doing 22 years to life — one year for each stabbing.No remorse, no anything,” Berman’s advocate, Bishop Boyde Singletary, said outside the courthouse, NBC 4 reported.“We are not satisfied.

She is not satisfied, so overwhelmed that she threw up.”Joseph, 23, stabbed Berman without warning approximately 22 times in the face, neck, hands and abdomen, while her 3-year-old daughter was in the next room, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.Berman was pet-sitting a friend’s cat at her apartment when Joseph — her friend’s boyfriend — came to pick up the animal, she previously told News 12.Joseph invited himself into the apartment and said his girlfriend permitted him to have sex with Berman.When Berman refused, Josep mood turned.Joseph also slashed Berman’s throat, below her right eye and across her nose as he left her for dead during the rampage.

He stole her cell phone and $5,700 in cash before fleeing the apartment, according to police.The blood-soaked Joseph was apprehended at a nearby subway station shortly after the attack.Berman spent 48 days at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi, where she underwent three surgeries and multiple blood transfusions.Berman’s supporters said the eight-and-a-half-year sentence was nowhere near enough for an attack that left her with permanent injuries and out of work.

“The woman has PTSD.She has nerve damage on both right hand and left hand, she has pain and trauma from the right side of her face.

Her life is never the same,” Singletary adde...