Nearly a month after she was doused with acid by unknown assailants while walking home, 22-year-old Sandy Jackman is slowly on the road to recovery, her mother said.
Speaking with Stabroek News yesterday, Karen Jackman said that her daughter is expected to do her third surgery today to graft her skin. “The doctors are doing it piece by piece, she had two surgeries before and they went well,” she said.
Jackman said her daughter is recuperating, but is still in a lot of pain. “When this thing first happened she couldn’t walk at all, but now she is walking a little,” she stated. “Although she is doing a little better, it is still tough for her. She is talking a little and so.”
She said her daughter did not lose her eye, as was reported in the media, but was given medication by her doctor and is now able to see out of her eye again.
Jackman related that since the incident, no one has been arrested, but she hopes someone will come forward with information since Sandy was unable to identify her attacker.
The young woman was doused with a noxious liquid on July 21. According to reports, she young woman was walking to her Sixth Street, Alberttown home when a man on a bicycle rode up and threw the substance on her. Her mother had related that she was at her stand selling when her daughter arrived and collected some containers.
She said that soon after Jackman left with the containers, she heard her screaming and saw her running back towards her crying for help. Jackman’s mother said that based on her daughter’s cries she knew it was something serious and she began running towards her only to see that she had been burnt in the face by the liquid that had been thrown on her.
