Diaries of Acid Victims
One of the most common utterances that follows these women around are the words, “How can you come out like this, you are scaring the children. Please cover yourself up.” It is incredible how poorly survivors are treated by the most people. It gets a lot worse. For many victims, the societies they live in believe that there must be some fault of the girl for such an incident to have occurred.
The truth is, however, that these crimes are often fueled by feelings of jealousy and rejection. Nothing can possibly prepare someone for the aftermath of such a horrendous crime—unimaginable, constant pain, numerous surgeries at great financial cost, and being shunned by those closest to you.