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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