A mum stabbed 24 times with a box cutter by her boyfriend is now living in fear as he is close to being released from jail.
Clarissa Price has spoken out about the horrific ordeal in the hope that she can spread awareness about domestic violence as she has finally been able to regain trust in a new partner again, welcoming a new baby last year. She had given birth to her and Roy Summers' baby daughter on February 2, 2014 but less than a week later he attacked the then 18-year-old.
Despite still struggling with PTSD, the TikToker has now moved on with a new partner and was able to try for another baby. She welcomed Eazy into the world last year and she said: "It has taken me a while to be able to trust somebody again, and I'm learning to move on. It's still never something that's too far from my memory. I want to get my story out there and have something for my daughter to help her understand what happened. My story's there for other women to learn from and connect with."
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Clarissa and Roy with newborn Remie (Kennedy News/rissapricexo)Clarissa claims Roy lost his temper after spotting she had sent a joking text to her friend speculating that he might now stop smoking – launching the frenzied attack as six-day-old Remie Price slept in the bassinet next to them. The now 28-year-old said Roy turned out the lights and pinned her to their bed then repeatedly punched the back of her head.
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The new mum was too scared to scream in case she woke the baby and only realised she was being stabbed when a strip of light revealed the curtain was splattered with blood. Her mum Wendy Damiani was watching TV in the living room when she walked in on the shocking attack to ask what was going on, and it was then that Roy left the bedroom.
Clarissa suffered significant injuries during the attack (Kennedy News/rissapricexo)Clarissa escaped through the window where a dog-walker found her but Roy continued his rampage, stabbing Wendy around 20 times and only stopping when her phone rang. The brutal thug was given two sentences of a maximum of 10 years for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but Clarissa fears he will soon be free from prison.
Clarissa, from Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, US, said: "Everything was fine until that night. I'm sitting on the bed, just going through some messages from my friends, you know 'Congratulations on the baby' and all of that. I was talking about him and something I said to one of my friends made him angry.
"[The text was to] one of my girlfriends, just about me requesting of him to not smoke anymore. [It was only] teasing about him to be a better dad. He came over and said 'why do you make me so angry?' He wasn't yelling at me but that was one of the last things he said to me. He takes the baby from me, lays her in the bassinet, and kisses her forehead.
"He then goes into his duffle bag and he's shuffling around and he gets something. He starts pacing around the room, just sort of mumbling and talking to himself. I kind of got an eerie feeling because it was unlike him. I felt the need to leave the room. He came up behind me, shut the door in front of me, and shut out the lights. He starts pushing me into everything in the room.
"He pushes me onto the bed, I'm laying face down. That's when he starts hitting me in the head, neck, shoulders, face. Eventually the pain started to set in and I saw a blood splatter on the off-white curtains." Without the night light, Clarissa wouldn't have noticed her blood or the severity of the attack as he stabbed her head, face, neck, shoulders, and arm.
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She said Roy had got out the box cutter days before Remie's birth and thought he was going to unbox something for their baby. Clarissa continued: "It was excruciating pain. I went numb in a way. I couldn't move. It was terrifying. My mom heard the ruckus. I thought she'd left, but at the last minute she told her boyfriend she didn't feel like going out to the bar and decided to stay in.
"She goes 'What's going on in there?' Everything stopped. He stands up over me and just walks right over me, opens the door, and walks to the living room. I go out the window and see a guy walking his dog. He sees me all messed up, calls the cops right away and takes me to a neighbour's house."
Roy then entered the living room where he began stabbing Wendy across her face, but Clarissa believes the face-to-face eye contact helped him to 'wake up' out of the frenzy. Clarissa's neighbour managed to call her an ambulance and Roy then fled the scene and ran into the woods. Before he ran off, he told Wendy: "He stops and says 'If I can't have her, no one will. Give me your alcohol, give me the pills you have'. I think he thought I was going to leave him because we just had this baby together. Maybe because he was so in love he didn't want to lose the family."
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The mum-of-two's scars still remain almost 10 years after the attack, visible on the face where he sliced through a nerve and she added: "After this, for a while I had Stockholm Syndrome. Even though he did this terrible, terrible thing, a piece of me is still connected to him whether I like it or not and it doesn't take away our relationship prior. That was the worst part, knowing he did something so terrible and still wanting to talk to him."
Falls Township Police Department confirmed that Summers pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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