NYC woman’s face burned after suspect throws unknown liquid at her in unprovoked subway attack
The random act of transit violence forever changed her life — and now, with subway crime up nearly 20% so far this year, she’s speaking out about how more cops and mental health resources are needed to restore safety and sanity to the rails.“I always thought something like this can’t happen to me – I’m such a nice person, it couldn’t be me… it really could just be anybody. We didn’t get into an argument, I didn’t know her, I didn’t have anything with her and it still occurred,” said Jimenez, 22.
“I was panicking and just crying because I didn’t understand why me. It was just a rollercoaster of emotions at that time,” said Jimenez, who spent a week in the Burn Unit at Jacobi Medical Center in The Bronx. Gravesande — who sources said was previously busted in 2014 in Brownsville for a domestic assault against her child’s father — was arrested about a month after the attack in Atlanta, Ga., and has been held behind bars on Rikers Island on $250,000 bail ever since. She pleaded not guilty.
“Finally getting my confidence back after surviving an acid attack,” she captioned a Feb. 7 video, which shows a series of pictures and videos of her face since the frightening incident. “When I met , I really loved her story…and I was really happy to do this for her,” Truesdale said.More will follow. “We don’t really know how many more are left, it just depends how they go,” she said.“I want to show to whoever has been through trauma, that there’s so much more to them than that trauma,” she said.
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