All day long I have been fuming about this and I am glad that I waited to post it. I COULD BURN

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148. Another question

When I was about eight, I spilled boiling water on my lap, receiving third degree burns and I had to go to the hospital. I still have a faint scar on my inner thigh 40 plus years later, but for years I had a three-inch wide ring of scar tissue around my upper leg. (It occurs to me that this may be why this story bothers me so much, because it brings up such a horrifying memory.)
Two things come to mind. First, the pain was so bad that I could barely move until the doctors gave me some serious pain medication, and two, it seems to me that someone would have to be immersed in boiling water for a great deal of time for the skin to start coming off, and that would probably also cause blindness.
Also, in almost all spousal abuse situations, the abuser isolates the victim and would never allow her (or occasionally him) to answer the door, especially after getting into a fight and knowing your victim's face was a horrifying mess.
You said "When the police went to the apartment to get this guy, his girlfriend opened the door." Yet she had burns on her face so bad that the skin was actually sloughing off of her face.
In her condition, and situation, how could she possibly have answered the door?
The more I think about it, the more I'm questioning this.