Kayla Hayes couldn’t stand the stares she got before her lip injury healed. Hayes had put on a brave face for her mother following her first surgery, but inside she was hurting. Years of abuse had made her vulnerable to abusive and manipulative figures, culminating in a nasty lip injury inflicted by her ex.
Kayla Hayes, 19, recounted on Facebook the day her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Seth Fleury who was her “worst nightmare” bit her bottom lip off during an uninvited kiss as she tried to break up with him in October 2017.
Fleury, as Hayes tried to pull away from him, “bit down on her bottom lip with such force that her lip was amputated.” It was his sad way of leaving a mark on the woman he “loved.”
“He wanted to make me ugly so no one would love me,” Kayla Hayes said.
Hayes, who said she was 17 at the time while Fleury was 21, said she remembers “every detail of this very moment.”
“Sitting in a puddle of my own blood with the majority of my lip laying on my leg, my whole mouth on fire, confused and terrified, I didn’t know how I could ever show my face again,” she wrote. “At that point, honestly wishing that those very seconds would just be my last- I wanted to give up for good.
“I then just started screaming at the top of my lungs for help and out of fear for my life. He then yanked me out of my own vehicle and slammed the door in my face so he could take off, and run away from what he had just done. He continued to call me once I made it into the ambulance, which felt like a life time after having something many women hold precious to them, completely mutilated.”
‘AMW’ added these details:
He kicked her out of the car, bleeding over the sidewalk, while he fled the scene as the result of the abuse he had just committed. The man, Seth, wanted to ignore the fact that he had severely injured the woman he “loved” and that he was less of a man for it.
Fortunately, people came to her rescue. A horror-stricken man and an elderly woman. An officer, she referred to as “Officer R.”
“I remember Officer R pulling his walkie-talkie… (and) … saying something along the lines of it being more serious than what he was expecting, my lip being completely severed off and for the EMS to come quick.”
Fortunately, she received medical help and was able to have her lip repaired to some degree. However, she would forever have a scar from the brutal attack by her ex-boyfriend.
“I felt like a monster. I couldn’t even walk out of the house without smothering myself in makeup or fearing that I would see him.”
Now, her entire worldview has changed.
“I no longer want kids because I feel like bringing them into the world would be putting them into danger. If Seth could flip like a switch because I refused a kiss, then imagine what he would do if he ran into me or my family again.”
Don’t remain silent if you or someone you love has experienced abuse. The National Domestic Violence Hotline is always available at 1−800−799−SAFE(7233) or TTY 1−800−787−3224 or (206) 518-9361 (Video Phone Only for Deaf Callers).
Source: AWM
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