This woman's horrific scars serve as a cruel and permanent
reminder of the moment her husband of 18 years flung acid into her face.
Nurbanu had divorced her unfaithful and violent spouse after catching him with
another woman.
Eight days later, she was cooking at home in Bangladesh when he
pulled up on a motorbike and doused her with acid, leaving her blind and
disfigured.The 36-year-old now has to endure living with her former spouse
again after his mother forced her to sign an affidavit to have him released
from prison following the attack.
Nurbanu's husband of 18 years went into hiding after
mutilating his former wife, but was caught ten months later and jailed for a
year, according to a report on The Huffington Post.
'His mother paid for his release on bail,' said Nurbanu, who
is from Satkhira in south west Bangladesh.'She made me sign an affidavit to
have him released. She used my sons to convince me to marry him again.'People
would think a husband would take care of a blind wife. But this doesn't
happen,' Nurbanu said.
She also said her spouse continues to beat and threaten her,
adding: 'This is how my days go by.'
Nurbanu, who is unable to even prepare a meal for herself
following her husband's devastating attack, is one of thousands of women
to fall victim to acid violence in Bangladesh in recent years.
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