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

[roguevalley]

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hear about it.

Update: My kid (what I call him because he's so lovable) came back to work today. His face looks more human. He has some stitches removed and the swelling is way down. He has a fracture of his eye socket that extends down through his sinuses. His teeth weren't knocked out so surgery isn't needed. It is stable enough to heal on its own because they are still there. The police came by yesterday to take more pictures and filled him in on some things that I will add below. He has two black eyes, one filled with blood. He is still shaken but he told me more about what happened.

This was his landlord whom he had a great two year relationship with. They even went kayaking on this Kenai River together, a wild river to say the least. He had gone over for drinks, his own girl went home and then the guy attacked him. He sucker punched my boy unconscious, then sat on him and beat him senseless. He then went to their apartment and told his girl to come get my kid out of his place. She came and found him in a pool of blood unconscious. She got him out and to the hospital.

While they were there, this guy (over 40) beat his own girlfriend (barely 20) half to death, pushed her face into boiling water, then poured some down her throat. She was horribly injured. Two days before, he had called his ex-wife to tell her he was going to kill himself. She had not heard from him in two days, so she called the police for a wellness check. They went there and knocked on the door.

His injured girlfriend opened the door and scared the cops to death. She didn't want to talk, she was so injured and scared so they called the EMTs to come and get her in an ambulance. That is when my niece's friend told her that he saw her brought in to the hospital and said, “I have never seen anyone's face falling off before.”

This poor woman has second and third degree burns from her navel to her face and in her throat. I am surprised she didn't asphyxiate from swelling. It doesn't even include the cigarettes put out on her face before he par boiled her. She is currently in the ICU at our hospital on a ventilator. There is talk if she is well enough that she will be medivaced out of state, either Washington or Texas where almost all our burn patients go.

My boy told me a few more things: This guy thought he had killed her. He also thought he killed my boy, but he wanted him out while he concocted a story. This guy was ripping drunk. He had called his girlfriend's parents and told them that two guys had come over to his place, beat one of them (the cops says that he actually described in detail to the cops how he had beaten my boy, blaming it on 'two guys') and then said his girlfriend had gone away with them. He at that point signaled his belief that he felt he had killed her and was going to get rid of her body. Hence the story.
They are pursuing serious multiple charges against him. The Grand Jury sits on Fridays here and will be handing down indictments when the DA presents the evidence. They are calling it on the radio, what little they are letting out that his is the 'worst case of domestic violence in the history of the peninsula'.

Something about the tenacity of this woman … she was born and raised in the north area of where I live where there are ZERO amenities of life and you either do or die. Literally. Bears come through your yard, you either heat with wood or freeze … the temps can be -40 with wind chill and snow can bury you alive. She is about 20 years old and entering 'the world' for the FIRST time in her life when she came to our little town. She has lived an isolated subsistence life since she was born. This is only her second boyfriend and the first treated her like crap too. She is innocent and defenseless.

She was raised in that life, a life where if you don't do it, you die. She is tough in an Alaskan way that Outsiders might not get. Its another life. If your smart and rural, you carry a survival pack in your car. We also get all the weirdos and adventurers of every state and country around. Most of them are awesome. A few of them are assholes. She met an asshole. She didn't know that 20 years ago he had a violence rap too. Neither did any of us.

The weather is our master, the land our boss. Watch Ultimate Alaska Survivor or Alaska State Troopers and see. You will even see my town if you do.

We have 4-5 hours of sunlight now and people kill each other. Some live in isolated places where the police have to fly in if the weather permits and all of the survivors of shooters have to run and hide for hours or days until they come. We are tough. We accept people who come to try new lives and we forgive. The Grizzly Guy wasn't considered normal by locals but he was accepted. Go out and live with the bears, kid and we hope you don't die. He did. Badly. The kid what came from back east, found an abandoned bus outside of Fairbanks and then sat in it until he starved to death isn't understood here but he is mourned. He haunts the people around him who didn't know he was there. There is even a book about him.

This guy thought this girl was dead and she should be. I would be and I've lived here for nearly 40 years. Most would be. She isn't. She is however on a respirator in our hospital fighting for her life. Her boyfriend is going for long term detention in our prison in Seward with the guy who killed his dad and ate part of his brain.

There will be news released and when it is I will hook the link to this thread or start a new one.

Android: We were good before you wrote privately to me. We all have to be good together. This was so awful I had to ask twice to find out if it was true myself. I wish it wasn't, but know we are good, you and I.

If there is nothing more to come out of this woman's dire situation it is that love is the only answer to hate. Forgiveness is grace given and received if you can give it. I will update when it comes out and I will link when I get it. Thank you for loving her. I do. I don't know her and I probably never will. She is a 20 year old baby fighting for her life. I have no more words.

-RV