'I am totally sorry': Acid attack 'victim' who gained world's sympathy sentenced after admitting it

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Daily Mail

'I am totally sorry': Acid attack 'victim' who gained world's sympathy sentenced after admitting it was hoax
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:42 PM on 9th April 2011

The woman who gained sympathy around the world after claiming a stranger threw acid in her face has been sentenced after making the shocking confession that she made the whole thing up.

Bethany Storro, 28, from Washington state, received a suspended one-year sentence after pleading guilty to making false statements to police.

She admitted that she had splashed her own face with drain cleaner and then falsely claimed a black woman had attacked her.

~snip~
Storro had said a black woman in her late twenties came up to her as she walked into a Starbucks coffee shop and hurled the acid in her face after saying: ‘Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375208/Acid-attack-victim-Bethany-Storro-sentenced-admitting-hoax.html

[bluestateguy]

1. I do hope similar justice was done to the Duke lacrosse "victim"

I remain angry about that hoax.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It reminds some of us of the John McCain campaign worker who claimed a black man

attacked her, and carved a "B" on her face on her corpulent cheek with a knife, after wildly beating her, after trying to rob her.

http://www.bittenandbound.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ashley-todd-hoax.jpg

Poor sweet, dishonest, race-baiting
McCain supporter, Ashley Todd.

[bluestateguy]

3. She got some kind of slap on the wrist

and of course "counseling" because nobody ever seems to be responsible for their own actions anymore. It's always some pseudo disorder.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. well, it's the special dispensation you're given if you're born a white caucasian.

they know how to play the game. Blame a black or hispanic and nobody questions it because it plays into everybody's stereotype.

[Beartracks]

22. You're right, black caucasians don't get the same deference.

Sorry, spotting redundant terms is a job hazard of mine.

:hi:

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[The Backlash Cometh]

27. Well, actually, there's a difference between anglo caucasians and hispanic caucasians.

If I was inaccurate, it was using white as a synonym for anglo.

[Beartracks]

37. Point taken. :) n/t

[MilesColtrane]

24. I'd say deliberately pouring acid on your own face rates as...

more than a pseudo disorder.

She's mentally ill.

[The Backlash Cometh]

28. aren't they all?

Anglo who do heinous things, it's because they're nuts. Every time. Not because they have a criminal bone in their body.

[calimary]

4. And remember susan smith? That horrendous creature who said some black guy carjacked her

with her two little boys in the back seat and took off with them? And they were found later, still in the back seat, at the bottom of a local lake, drowned? And she finally admitted she did it.

AWFUL. DISGRACEFUL!!!

If I were black, I'd start getting pretty pissed off that these assholes use imaginary black "bad guys" as scapegoats for the crimes that they themselves commit.

[virgogal]

6. In the Tawana Brawley case and the Duke case it was white men

accused falsely accused.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Also the man in Philadephia, who shot his wife, then told the cops a black man tried to carjack them

and ended up murdering his wife and shooting him, too.

He shot himself somewhere to make it look credible but in time, after the cops had thrown a man in jail as the suspect, they kept on the case long enough to get to the bottom of this piece of filth's crime, and his own filthy lies.

It's an old, OLD, OLD story, isn't it? It goes back so very, VERY far in this country's history. People have been lynched, people have been murdered over lies like this, in situations like the Tulsa riot in 1921, described in this Wiki:

The Tulsa race riot was a large scale racially-motivated conflict between the white and black communities of Tulsa, Oklahoma, including aerial attack, beginning May 31, 1921. During the 16 hours of the assault, over 800 people were admitted to local hospitals with injuries, an estimated 10,000 were left homeless, and 35 city blocks composed of 1,256 residences were destroyed by fire caused by bombing.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

The white community invaded and totally destroyed the prosperous black community, leveled it, over ignorance, not taking the time to wait for the truth, reveling in the chance to deeply harm, murder people they figured they just didn't like much.

So many other filthy stories like this, and sadly, the racists now aren't bright enough to recognize any part of the history of this country. Doesn't matter. The people with functioning brains know, by God.

[Raine]

30. Another poster mentions that guy down thread ... Charles Stuart

he had his brother help him dispose of the gun, he came to a bad end and committed suicide a year or so later. Hate to say it but good riddance to bad rubbish, saved the taxpayers from having to house him in prison.

[gtar100]

33. I think they are. It's not lost on them what these racists do.

[trud]

5. you forgot stupid

for putting the B on backwards.

[Judi Lynn]

10. A classic Republican act, wasn't it? Good grief! n/t

[griloco]

7. And then there was Charles Stuart who shot his wife and blamed a black man

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer)

I would think this makes police work easy. "Blaming the black man"
is tantamount to a confession.

[JackRiddler]

13. You could stand to leave out the "corpulent."

[Marengo]

32. Why do you feel the need to comment on body type?

Does this have some bearing on political orientation or anti-social behavior?

[NOLALady]

15. Why?

Why are you still angry?

[LisaL]

21. Is there a limit on how long someone can stay angry?

[NOLALady]

35. Course not.

Just curious.

[Tunkamerica]

19. you'll be happy to know she stabbed her boyfriend and is awaiting trial.

[Corruption Winz]

8. Whatever this was supposed to accomplish, I bet.... it didn't. n/t

[Sonoman]

11. They should throw her sorry ass in prison and let her work off the cost...

of the investigation.

Sonoman

[HankyDubs]

14. you have to love the beauty of

the self-inflicted stupidity sentence she brought on herself.

[Keith Bee]

12. Apology Not Accepted

Racist imbecile! :puke:

[greenman3610]

17. even google does it

[HankyDubs]

25. jesus h christ

[Maine-ah]

31. I tried it, doesn't work

I've found for the most part when I did google it, it's considered a hoax.

[WatsonT]

18. I could live to be a thousand

and still not understand all the intricacies of human stupidity.

[kenichol]

20. Could this have been mental illness? How do we draw that line?

How do we draw the line between unable to control behavior, who is unable to share the perception of the 'other' (the victime) because of mental illness and someone who chooses to be mean, chooses to have no compassion?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

34. Seems like it to me...

I feel sorry for her - whatever her problem was. While her fake allegations were horrid, I hope her life improves.

[cstanleytech]

23. 1 year suspended sentence for something that had the potential

to incite racial problems such as riots? Wow, she got a sweetheart deal there imo

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. I'm sorry. Totally.

Rilly.

[The abyss]

29. Thanks for posting Judi - recommend.

This story caused me to flash back on the Professor Kerri Dunn story.

- thanks for the memory!

[Judi Lynn]

36. Oh, yeah, I can see how it would remind you! I had forgotten about that one.

Inexplicable by ordinary means. Totally bewildering.