A young mom — who vomited upon learning about the “very light” prison sentence for a fiend who stabbed her 22 times — ripped the Bronx judge for suggesting her attacker deserved a chance to turn his life around.
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attacker → vomit → life
“He stabbed me more times than the years he was sentenced for,” fumed Kaitlynn Berman, 23, in an interview with The Post on Friday — two days after the man who tried to kill her was sentenced to less than a decade in prison for the gruesome March 2025 attack.
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who → stab → attack
“It was upsetting, it was heartbreaking, because it was supposed to be 20 to 25 years,” she said.
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she → suppose → ?
Berman was left scarred and with permanent nerve damage to her hands and face after Christopher Joseph, also 23 and the then-boyfriend of one of her friend’s, showed up at her Wakefield apartment.
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Joseph → leave → apartment
The sicko claimed that his girlfriend had given him permission to have sex with Berman, which she found “very weird and uncomfortable,” she said.
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she → claim → which
When she rebuffed his advances, he flipped — grabbing a knife and stabbing her nearly two dozen times across the body, arms, throat and face before leaving her for dead.
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he → rebuff → her
Her 3-year-old daughter was in the next room while the vicious attack went down, and was thankfully unharmed.
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attack → go → room
“I remember being in and out of consciousness thinking I was going to die,” she said in Bronx Supreme Court during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, according to a transcript obtained by The Post.
“One of the things I was most afraid of is what would happen if I did not survive for my daughter.”
Her neighbors heard her screaming and came to check on her, she recalled in the interview Friday.
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she → remember → interview
“I had to crawl back to the door to unlock it for my neighbor.
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I → have → neighbor
And the most thing that I was worried about was my daughter, because I had no idea if he had done anything to her,” she said.
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she → worry → her
Berman was left hospitalized for 48 days while she underwent three surgeries and two blood transfusions.
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she → leave → surgeries
Joseph pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the second-degree in September — a charge that could have sent him to state prison for 25 years.
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that → plead → years
As part of the plea deal, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark’s office requested a 10-year sentence, while Joseph’s defense argued he should only be locked up for five.
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he → request → five
But Justice Timothy Lewis seemingly split the difference, sentencing Joseph to eight and half years behind bars — because of his age and the possibility he would turn his life around after getting out of lockup.
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he → split → lockup
“The sentence of 8.5 years reflects the fact that you’re still a relatively young man,” Lewis told him, according to the transcript.
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“I’m only hopeful that you find a way to become a different person and to do something positive when you get out, to in some way address what you did to Ms. Berman,” he added.
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he → ’m → Berman
“I’m hoping that you don’t become a hardened criminal who ends up spending your life in jail.”
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who → hop → jail
The judge also noted Joseph may have been “under some sort of drug or narcotic” when he attacked Berman, and also was reportedly “in a gang” at some point.
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he → note → point
“I hope you hear what I’m saying.
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I → hope → what
I hope you think about what you’ve done.
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you → hope → what
I’m sure you have.
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you → ’m → ?
I’m sure you’ve had many sleepless nights.
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you → ’m → nights
But you’ll never be able to take away what you did to Ms. Berman and how you affected her life,” he told Joseph.
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he → take → Joseph
“Having said all of that, it’s an agreed upon promise, and I am sentencing you as promised to eight and a half years of state prison and five years post-release supervision,” said Lewis, who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2023.
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who → say → 2023
But Berman scoffed at the notion her admitted tormentor should be allowed a second chance — calling him “a monster.”
“They said that he’s still young and has time to change his life around,” she told The Post.
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she → scoff → Post
“I think it doesn’t matter if you have time to change your life around.
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you → think → life
I think it matters of what you already did.
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you → think → what
You need to suffer the consequences.”
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You → need → consequences
Joseph “got off easy,” she said.
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she → get → ?
Berman has suffered daily trauma, both physically and mentally, in the year and a half since Joseph attacked her, she said, adding and that his punishment didn’t make up for the horrors she’ll have to relive for the rest of her life.
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she → suffer → life
“I think it was a very, very light sentence,” she said.
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she → think → ?
“He needs more than eight and a half years, and people really need to know who he is.
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he → need → years
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