‘I am a survivor:’ Victim says vicious sexual assault changed her life
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A woman who was so badly beaten during a sexual assault that she had to learn how to walk and talk again says there have been times when she wished her attacker had “finished her off.”
The woman’s victim impact statement was read in a Lethbridge court Wednesday at the sentencing hearing of Denzel Dre Colton Bird for aggravated sexual assault and break and enter.
Bird, 21, pleaded guilty last fall to striking the then-25-year-old woman from behind with a metal pipe, dragging her into an alley and sexually assaulting her while she was walking to work in September 2016.
The blows caused multiple skull fractures and broke facial bones.