Sent to prison for killing her boyfriend, Caryn Acevedo says memories of the
abuse she suffered at his hands still disturb her sleep.
"There are things I am trying to come to terms with ... I still have
nightmares," Acevedo said yesterday in an interview at the library in the
State Prison for Women.
Last March, Acevedo was convicted of negligent homicide in the death of
28-year-old William Burns. She told police she stabbed him in the back with
a steak knife after a night of being beaten and thrown on the floor. She is
serving a three-and-a-half to seven-year prison term.
Acevedo met Burns at the Mountainside Treatment Centre in Canaan, Conn.,
where they both were being treated for heroin addiction.

After they left the program in April 2004, they moved into an apartment in
Manchester, beginning what Acevedo said was a year of daily abuse.
While she was living with Burns, she worked as a receptionist at a dance
studio but said she was not allowed to have friends.
"I never made any friends," Acevedo said. "I was never allowed to go
anywhere myself."
She said she was too afraid to even call the police because she was afraid
of how Burns would react. She didn't run away, she said, because she said
she would have lived in constant fear of what Burns would do to her when he
found her.
"I was not happy with my life," she said. "I must have hated myself to let
someone abuse me like that every day for a year."
She said she has scars on her knees from being dragged across the floor with
broken glass and she has been punched more times in the face than she can
remember.
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