15 year old Argentinian Julia Alvarez was left disfigured after two
jealous girls slashed her face with knives because she was ‘too pretty’.
The two girls, who are sisters,
have since been arrested. Julia later
told police the girls said they wanted to make her look like horror
movie character, Chucky.
Julia said she was walking home in the town of Juan Domingo Peron, in
the northern Argentinian province of Formosa, when the girls aged 18
and 16 attacked her without any provocation.
“Everyone
says you are pretty. You won’t look pretty when we have finished with
you. People will call you Chucky.” – Julia claims this is what the girls
told her before slashing her face…
After the attack on her face
and other parts of her body, the two sisters ran away and left her in
the pool of her own blood. She was rushed to the hospital by passers-by.
Julia needed dozens of stitches on her face and back to put the flaps of skin back together.
The
two girls were later arrested after the victim’s sister posted the
horrific images in Facebook. The pics went viral in the country and many
activists called for the arrest of the attackers.
In her Facebook post, the victim’s sister wrote:
“They
were jealous of my sister for a long time and always abusing her and
insulting her, but we never expected them to go this far. I have tried
to stay strong for my beautiful sister but every time I see her I want
to burst into tears. They have ruined her life.
“She says she wants to kill herself because when she looks in the mirror she so ugly now. It has ruined our family.”
Police arrested the two girls but later released the 16 year old because of her age. The 18 year old is still in custody.
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