Model's Struggle After Brutal Sulphuric Acid Attack
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[quote]A model who suffered a horrific acid attack has revealed the harrowing details of her battle to recover.
Katie Piper was beaten and raped by her jealous boyfriend at a London hotel in March 2008.
Steroid-fuelled Daniel Lynch then arranged for another man to throw sulphuric acid in her face as she walked along Golders Green High Street.
The corrosive liquid burned through all four layers of the skin on the 26-year-old's face and neck.
She was left blind in one eye, unable to eat from the damage to her throat, and in need of over 30 corrective operations to repair the damage.
Lynch, a martial arts fanatic, was jailed for life for rape and arranging the attack on Ms Piper, whom he met on Facebook.
His accomplice Stefan Sylvestre also received a life sentence.
Surgeons at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, led by Dr Mohammad Jawad, had to remove all of Ms Piper's skin that had come into contact with the acid.
They then used a pioneering technique to restore her face by applying an artificial skin substitute with grafts from other parts of her body.
Waiving her right to anonymity over the rape, Ms Piper will appear in a Channel 4 documentary which she hopes will raise awareness of the plight of burn victims.
She explained to the News of the World: "I've decided to tell my story so that people know what these men did to me.
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"To help people understand who have ignorance about people that look different, and for people not to be frightened of burns and the stigma attached to it, to understand that it's still the same person underneath."
Ms Piper now wears a plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day to flatten her scars and keep in moisture.
"I was a fun person. I had lots of friends. If I went somewhere and people met me for the first time they would say 'Oh, you're really pretty' and I would think 'Yeah, I am'," she said.
But following the attack and only able to communicate by writing, she had told her mother Diane: "Kill me."
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When Katie first saw her face after surgery, she was shocked.
She said: "I remember thinking, you know, 'someone's going to have to hand me another mirror because this one is totally broken'. And then I realised that it was me.
"And I just wanted to just smack it in my face and just cut my face open and tear the whole thing off."
Miss Piper still suffers nightmares about her terrible ordeal and makes sure that every door and window at her parents' house is locked before bed.
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"I think I've got the chance to build a life. I don't think it's going to be that easy, but I want to try," she said.
"I want to move on from my attack, and I don't want to be a scared little child. I want to blossom into a confident, able woman.
"My dream would be just to live a normal life and after all this be able to meet somebody again and learn to trust a guy and the normal dream: a girl wants to get married and have kids.
"Coming to terms with the fact that my life as I knew it before the acid attack was over, and that my facial appearance had changed forever, has been incredibly difficult."
:: Katie: My Beautiful Face will be shown on Channel 4 at 9pm on Thursday, October 29.[/quote]
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Katie before the attack:
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She looks like a man to me.
After not before.
Damn man that sucks, She looks beautiful too
Poor girl... I hope that fucker enjoys federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison >=(
She still sleeps at her parent's house.
[QUOTE=Wii60;17918508]She still sleeps at her parent's house.[/QUOTE]
I noticed that, too.
Maybe boyfriend was jealous that she'd rather live in her parents' house than with him?
Tells you how good a boyfriend he was, even disregarding having his buddy throw acid on her, don't it?
I wonder if she was another one of these "princesses" ?
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goddamn she was hot
Makes you wonder what she must have done to piss her boyfriend off that much.
Not that I think anyone actually deserves H2SO4 in the face.
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Not that I think anyone actually deserves H2SO4 in the face.[/quote]
Good fucking christ, people. Sorry if I offended you by considering another side of the issue.
Nobody deserves what happened to her. Her boyfriend is disturbed. I wasn't for one minute trying to side with him.
Providing how much damage acid can do to you, she doesn't actually look too bad at all.
That's horrible. Makes me feel a bit sick thinking about it.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;17918502]Poor girl... I hope that fucker enjoys federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison >=([/QUOTE]
Britain doesn't have as big a rape problem as the states, so no such luck there. :(
Yeah, she was hot. And the accent.
[QUOTE=lew06;17919307]Providing how much damage acid can do to you, she doesn't actually look too bad at all.[/QUOTE]
True. I saw an interview with a victim of a sulfuric acid attack and you could barely tell she had a nose and the rest of her face was completely disfigured. It still sucks though, that man is one sick son of a bitch.
No, this is un-fucking acceptable. What the flying fuck is wrong with judicial systems today. You have to be absolutely fucking insane to give these two thugs [i]life in prison[/i] and yet [URL=http://leftagenda.com/?p=880]these ignorant motherfuckers[/URL] only get 25 years. Granted, one is England and the other America, but it's all the same. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying that the two idiots should have gotten off any easier than they did. I'm saying that when what they did here was essentially burn a woman and ruin her career, while the other involved [i]killing a child[/i].
Life in jail? What a ridiculous sentence. So a murderer gets out in twenty, but a rapist acid thrower gets life.
Christ, 30 operations?
[QUOTE=Gorgonoth;17919508]No, this is un-fucking acceptable. What the flying fuck is wrong with judicial systems today. You have to be absolutely fucking insane to give these two thugs [i]life in prison[/i] and yet [URL=http://leftagenda.com/?p=880]these ignorant motherfuckers[/URL] only get 25 years. Granted, one is England and the other America, but it's all the same. Don't get me wrong here, I'm not saying that the two idiots should have gotten off any easier than they did. I'm saying that when what they did here was essentially burn a woman and ruin her career, while the other involved [i]killing a child[/i].[/QUOTE]
You do realise however that the world runs on Capitalism? and Models are key to Capitalism and the fashion industry. One Child on the other hand isn't that much of a big deal to the Capitalist's in charge. you should also take into account that the Judge for this case may of been much more tougher than the judge for the other case.
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[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;17919552]Life in jail? What a ridiculous sentence. So a murderer gets out in twenty, but a rapist acid thrower gets life.[/QUOTE]
It all depends on the judge who is doing the case.
[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;17919552]Life in jail? What a ridiculous sentence. So a murderer gets out in twenty, but a rapist acid thrower gets life.[/QUOTE]
I think that you should be punished in a way you harmed someone. For example, he should be tortured with sulfuric acid.
IIRC a life sentence is only like 25 years anyway... I don't think it's literally their entire life.
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I'm talking rubbish... nevermind.
[QUOTE=Scotchair;17919606]IIRC a life sentence is only like 25 years anyway... I don't think it's literally their entire life.
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I'm talking rubbish... nevermind.[/QUOTE]
Life in England is ~25 years.
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[QUOTE=Marlwolf78;17919596]I think that you should be punished in a way you harmed someone. For example, he should be tortured with sulfuric acid.[/QUOTE]
Torture is inhumane though.
[QUOTE=Marlwolf78;17919596]I think that you should be punished in a way you harmed someone. For example, he should be tortured with sulfuric acid.[/QUOTE]
It would be interesting. However, two wrongs don't make a right. (although I think I may prefer to get the acid poured on me instead of a life sentence...)
[QUOTE=radioactive;17919569]You do realise however that the world runs on Capitalism? and Models are key to Capitalism and the fashion industry. One Child on the other hand isn't that much of a big deal to the Capitalist's in charge. you should also take into account that the Judge for this case may of been much more tougher than the judge for the other case.
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It all depends on the judge who is doing the case.[/QUOTE]
I demand robot judges, NOW.
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[QUOTE=MS-DOS4;17919656]It would be interesting. However, two wrongs don't make a right. (although I think I may prefer to get the acid poured on me instead of a life sentence...)[/QUOTE]
I don't know. In most cases, an eye for an eye is more appropriate than others.
The girl dated an asshole, not surprised. I mean look at the guy, he looks like a fucking rag.
I would say more, but I know its stupid to be racist.
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[QUOTE=Gorgonoth;17919661]I demand robot judges, NOW.
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A machine would just put everyone in prison for 25 years though.
[QUOTE=Gorgonoth;17919661]I demand robot judges, NOW.
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"DEATH SENTENCE."
"But I was just jaywalking!"
[b]"DEATH FUCKING SENTENCE."[/b]
[QUOTE=Marlwolf78;17919675]I don't know. In most cases, an eye for an eye is more appropriate than others.[/QUOTE]
Two wrongs don't make a right.
However three Rights make a left.
Assuming the guy in the right picture is the guy who threw it (didn't say in the article?), did he get some on him as well? Or are those just scars.
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