Iran - Young Woman's Horrific Acid Attack by Father, over Hope to Leave Abusive, Drug Addict Husband

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Iran – Young Woman’s Horrific Acid Attack by Father, over Hope to Leave Abusive, Drug Addict Husband

By jak - December 16, 2014

Tahmineh Yousefi is young Iranian girl whose father threw the acid on her at Qazvin on May 5, 2014. After this incident, her older brother took her to Qazvin Hospital with private car. She was transferred to Accidents and Burning Hospital of Tehran because her face, hands and feet have been burning hardly. Unlucky Tahmineh was in the hospital for 20 days, and doctors made 4 skin surgeries on her.

Tahmineh’s older sister that was while in hospital because her father knife attack a couple years ago and was one of eyewitness of Tahmineh’s event about this terrible crime said: Recently my sister got married with young man that she realized, that her husband was abusive and addicted to drugs, my sister was very sad about this, and she was going to separate from him. My parents opposed to it. The couple of days my sister has a quarrel with them. My father knows that my sister sensitivity to her dowry, so for this reason, he started selling Tahmineh’s furnishings.

On May 5^th13 o’clock, Tahmieh coming home and she found that my father had sold her carpet. So their struggle intensified, and my mother called the youngest brother, born 1990, to come home for solving the problem. When the brother arrived home, my father said to my brother that to get her face to throw the acid on her that he provided it before. On this time, I ran away from home because I was scared of being hurt.

The victim of acid throwing about the date of event and the adventure after her sister escaping said: At first, I wanted to escape, but my brother locked the door after my sister ran away, and took my face in his hands tightly. Then my father threw the acid on my face and my body, then my father and brother hung me with rope and pulled it side to side until I was unconscious of pressure.

The victim continued: After the hours I woke up and went to the bathroom because of the burning pressure. I felt my father was going to kill me, but he gave up after my mother insistence. Then my mother called my older brother to bring me to hospital.