Lynn man gets up to 20 years in prison

SALEM – William Carey entered his ex-wife’s apartment on Cliff Street in Lynn last year and stabbed her 21 times while she lay in her bed as her children watched.Susan Carey, 38, believed she was dying and told her 12-year-old son, “I’m going to die. Tell your sisters I love them,” as the boy tried to perform CPR on his mother on the steps of their home before an ambulance arrived.Now, Salem Superior Court Judge David A. Lowy is making sure Carey won’t have contact with his ex-wife or their three children for the next 30 years as he described the impact the incident had on the children, saying it is “truly beyond description.”Carey, a landscaper, who was living at 42 Jackson St., in Saugus, was sentenced Wednesday afternoon to serve 16-to-20-years in prison by Lowy after pleading guilty to home invasion, armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery causing serious bodily injury, armed burglary and assault, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in violation of a 209-A court restraining order, assault and battery in violation of a 209-A court restraining order, wanted and reckless endangerment of a child, malicious destruction of a motor vehicle and two counts of violation of a 209-A court restraining order.Lowy also ordered that Carey be on probation for next 30 years with the conditions he is to be monitored by a GPS tracking system when he gets out of prison, with an exclusionary zone set around his ex-wife and children’s residence, workplace and schools. He also will be evaluated for substance abuse treatment and counseling as deemed necessary and is to refrain from all drugs and alcohol during his probationary term.Assistant District Attorney Kate B. MacDougall said the couple had been married for 13 years when the marriage began to decline over Carey’s use of illegal drugs along with his verbal abuse toward Susan when they were living in Haverhill.The couple split and were living at separate addresses in Haverhill.On April 17, Susan applied and got an emergency restraining order in Haverhill District Court prohibiting Carey from entering her home, but Carey had entered the house, knifed the couch, damaged her car and stole all the personal items she had placed in the car for safekeeping.Earlier Carey had stolen all their valuable items to buy drugs, MacDougall said.In fear, Susan Carey moved back with her mother to Lynn, then she rented an apartment on Cliff Street in Lynn for her and their children.It was about 4:45 a.m., when police rushed to 6 Cliff St., after 12-year-old Billy Carey came running out of the house screaming “Call 911, My mother is dead. My father killed her.”Police rushing to the scene found Susan Carey outside on her front steps, alive, but nearly unconscious with 21 stab wounds to her torso, arms and neck.She was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and treated for a collapsed right lung, along with multiple lacerations.In the meantime, police learned that Carey was in Saugus and arrested him near the Cliftondale Mobile Station.Susan Carey described the ordeal her children have suffered as a result of the incident, the fear, and how they continue to have issues to Lowy.”He robbed his children of their innocence. We wanted him to get drug free and be healthy.””Now he will always be a threat to me and society,” she told Lowy.Billy, now 13, was not present during the hearing, but an impact statement he wrote was read by MacDougall to the judge.In that he asked the judge to put his father in jail as long as he can.”I believe he does not belong in the outside world,” the boy wrote.MacDougall asked for 30-to-40-years in prison pointing out to the judge that when Carey entered that home on Cliff Street that morning he knew his 7-year-old daughter was sleeping with her mother that night and she awoke to see blood in the bed and her father killing her mother.Their son saw his father viciously stabbing his mother.MacDougall emphasized that Susan Carey believes if and when Car