Meghan Kiefer reported to police her boyfriend had been threatening her and being violent when they lived in Albany. They later moved to Coram but she told her mother, Bevin Llanes, they were breaking up and he was moving out on Oct. 23, 2021.

An hour after that conversation, the 27-year-old returned home, where her ex-boyfriend, Kason Parker, was waiting for her and stabbed her 54 times on the front lawn of her Coram home.

"She endured trauma that no young person should never have to face," Llanes, 55, of Holbrook, said during a news conference Monday in Hauppauge announcing a new domestic violence alliance. "What makes her story even more heartbreaking is not only the abuse that she suffered every day in her adult life, but the lack of coordinated support from the very systems meant to

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