A Bronx woman who survived a brutal stabbing is once again waiting for justice after her accused attacker’s trial was postponed for another month.<\/p>\n
Christopher Joseph appeared before a judge on Wednesday in Bronx Criminal Court. He is accused of stabbing Kaitlynn Burman, a former friend, 22 times in March of last year, leaving her for dead while her child was in another room. <\/p>\n
Authorities said Joseph was later found with Burman’s phone and cash and was arrested and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and other offenses.<\/p>\n
News 12 has reported on several previous court hearings in which Joseph was released, sparking concern from Burman and her supporters as she continues to recover from the attack.<\/p>\n
Burman says she is still dealing with both physical and emotional trauma.<\/p>\n
“Physically, I still have difficulties with my hands. I have difficulties with my face,” she said. “Mentally, things are very hard. I don’t go outside by myself. I just feel like something is going to happen every time I’m outside.”<\/p>\n
She also claims Joseph has been harassing her online.<\/p>\n
“He has tried to go on my social media to like and unlike pictures, friend me and unfriend me,” Burman said. “I don’t know how the courts don’t see that as a violation of the order of protection.”<\/p>\n
The trial was scheduled to begin on Wednesday, but has now been delayed until July 29. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 10 years in prison followed by five years of parole if Joseph is convicted. Burman, however, says that punishment is not enough.<\/p>\n
“Twenty-two years would sound fair,” she said. “I feel like 10 years that they’re trying to offer is not enough.”<\/p>\n
Community members have rallied behind Burman, including Bishop Boyde Singletary, who says they will continue pushing for what they believe is justice.<\/p>\n
“This is not justice. We need justice, and we will continue to fight for her until we get it,” he said.<\/p>\n
Burman’s order of protection against Joseph has been extended through Oct. 27 as the case proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx woman who survived a brutal stabbing is once again waiting for justice after her accused attacker’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-270085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}