16x9 - Stolen Faces: Acid Attacks

This week, a story of courage - the kind you need when dealing with disfigurement from an "acid attack". These vicious assaults don't only happen on the Indian sub-continent - they also occur closer to home - in cities like London, Brussels. And even here, in Canada. For more info, please go to www.global16x9.com.

[@nenabunena]

I don't understand how a sister can say such things and turn her back on a sister that was brutally attacked and scarred. How can she be so superficial? That's your sister

[@tiky141]

Yes it is and since I have never had such news

[@vanhouttesnezana521]

nenabunena i live in belgum and all i can say belgum people are verry crazzy strainge not at all nice and fuckt up mentality..thats why

[@tiky141]

Vanhoutte snezana . Because unfortunately we do not change people we can just improve them and still need a contact to be made (here I am talking about my sister)

[@vanhouttesnezana521]

Sorry for you i emphaty with your pain..i live in belgum 8 years but i come from macedonia couuse my husbant is belg and i live in roeselare...after 8 years i still cant get your mentality soooo different then my people in macedonia..i dont like living here feeling miserable every day..belgum mentality is way more cold then our people.i too suffer just in other way.all i want is to live home..but is not happening yet..

[@tiky141]

I understand that your country miss you, small wink I do not drink Belgian beer besides I do not drink at all., Beautiful thought for you

[@personalcheeses8073]

Katie Piper is a symbol of strength, endurance, and bravery, she has overcome such immense adversity and used her suffering to help others. All these poor women struggle everyday to overcome the actions of vicious, jealous, spiteful men.

[@savantianprince]

Ban sulfuric acid to be sold to anyone. Sulfuric acid should be controlled like pharmacies.

[@kingcrimson234]

+Kim Lowe That's stupid and reactionary. Do you know how easy it is to make your own acid? If some monster wants to do this, they will make acid if they can't buy it and there are plenty of legit uses for this stuff.

[@catherinehpn3613]

kingcrimson234 It absolutely should be scheduled and not readily available to the general public.

[@Arahansannihilation]

Kim Lowe I agree, this horrible substance should be banned. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably selling it or have thoughts of using it.

[@thegamesvoid27]

its so sad that she called here self a monster. but the real monster was the guy who did that to her.

[@chloeeng6811]

Yeah

[@sarahelsom3950]

The sister of the woman from Brussels, how cold can you be...poor woman.

[@RavynSkye617]

This is beyond horrible... In a way, this is worse than murder. Forcing victims to live out their entire lives with the consequences of your actions... and it's worse than rape, being that those consequences are completely publicly displayed.

[@fribergbass393]

+Ravyn Skye You're right.

[@SalmaAhmeditsmesalmii]

Agreed

[@starquant]

+Ravyn Skye Saying that something is worse than "rape" is a nonsense and a spit in the eye for the victims of rape. If you haven't been through it yourself, don't use it as a comparison. It's an act done by misogynists, which is why the victims are exclusively female. Condemn the misogyny, not try and grade one form of humiliation with another.

[@starquant]

Ravyn Skye I don't need a sermon from a foul mouthed idiot. If you had been a victim of anything, you would have learnt enough from the experience not to draw parallels. You would have learnt that everyone's experience is different for a start. You bring idiocy into a whole new dimension. Grow up you stupid little girl.

[@RavynSkye617]

starquant - Perhaps you'll think about that next time you try to lecture or 'give a sermon to' someone on YT, and make a total ass of yourself by making assumptions about their life experiences.

Very disturbing video, but even more disturbing (and pretty disgusting) is the way the victims are being called. Saying they look like/or are 'monsters' , 'one of the walking-dead' is truly inconsiderate and disgusting. Shameful tbh.

[@Txboy85A]

I just can't understand how somebody could do something like that.

[@chloeeng6811]

Rejection and jealousy

[@lisamcdonald1014]

Tanya St-Arnauld was the first victim of an acid attack in Montreal, Canada on August 26th, 2012

[@jamesrosa2317]

Its painful yo watch this. My heart goes to these ladies and prayer to GOD for spritual,Physical and mental healing.

[@attackthecanvas]

i feel like when they arrest someone for an acid attack, the punishment should be more severe than just jail time. they should be splashed with acid, and forced to sit in prison without a shower. no surgery. no help. nothing. maybe then they actually realize the pain they caused.

[@Bixxy]

yes please

[@Brandonisrad18]

So true. What's even more sad is that the world shuns these burn victims more than they do the perpetrator. We live in a sick, sad world that rewards evil.

[@bornwithbsguards]

***** You nailed that on the head!

[@blackflash7030]

+attackthecanvas An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind

[@attackthecanvas]

Black Flash yeah, ive heard this little saying before, and its not a fact. at all.

[@itsamandawainright]

I am in awe of these BEAUTIFUL & UNBELIEVABLY STRONG WOMAN! For them to keep going and not let their hopes cease to exist. I know my injury of being a paraplegic from a car wreck (at 19, and currently 26 &1/2 yrs old) is in no way an equal comparison to what these women have suffered through and will carry with them for the rest of their days. I do know and understand the horribleness of depression, the anger, the grief, the sadness, and also having to accept that they may never be the person they were before. From my own experiences, it can take a really long time to get any feeling of even the slightest bit of being "normal" again. As well as, the fact that people (especially children; usually them just being curious of something they may never have seen or had explained to them previously) are, more often than not, going to stare and be rude, even if they may think what they are doing and the questions or comments they may ask and voice would not be harmful to the souls that live inside of these bodies that were forever changed. It's different for each individual that may be dealing with going through their own personal private hell!!!! My personal beliefs are that I truly have faith that my Savior, Jesus Christ, has a purpose for my life with the strength He has given to me in these past 7 years of living life in a way and form, I never in a million years imagined myself being in! It's been really hard and been a true test, navigating myself on this "up hill battle"!!!! But like they all say "WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER!" !!!! & I'M A FIRM BELIEVER OF THAT!!! Looking back, I know I'm a much stronger person all around, & that I wouldn't be the driven, motivated or loving and compassionate 26 yr old woman, that I'm soo very blessed to see when I look in the mirror today! PLEASE, TRY NOT TO TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN IN LIFE FOR GRANTED, even something that can seem so simple and small as just walking and having the use and feeling of your entire body! I really pray that our "fellow human beings" all around us will become more grateful for all the things we can still do, including myself as well! BC I AM WELL AWARE OF THE BLESSINGS, THAT I MYSELF HAVE BEEN GIVEN!! This is one of my favorite quotes of all time - "WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE HERE ON EARTH, WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS SIMPLY HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE"!!! Can't we all at least give it a try to have peace with one another, I truly believe it would really feel soo very WONDEROUS & ULTIMATELY REWARDING TO OUR SOULS THAT IN DESPERATE NEED OF A REST FROM STRESS!

[@tiky141]

Amanda Wainright merci de tout mon coeur

[@papa54321]

How can a man calling himself a man can do such thing....

[@bweber02]

To be burned by acid once is horrific enough, but THREE TIMES?!? It's almost hard to believe. I would not wish a burn injury on my worst enemy.

[@Frank-ju8qr]

Throwing acid on someone just once is actually already torturing the person

[@Grafteef]

+Frank Tiemens ow really? I thougt it was a facemassage and compliment lol XD

[@Frank-ju8qr]

+Graf Teef your level of sarcasme is over 9000 xD

[@tiky141]

Yes

[@SongBirdJesusFreak]

I saw no humanity in this video.

[@TheWritersBlockLibrary]

These women posses the truest form of beauty.

[@paularoehl-johnson9991]

How.......? What........? What would possess one Human Being do this to another Human Being? What goes through their mind that they even thought to do this to another Human Being???? Any "thing" that even thinks to do something like this? Should be locked away forever! You just don't something like this to another Human Being! You just don't! You cease to be a Human Being when something this evil enters your mind!!!

[@leifarvidsson4867]

Some blame the devil, some blame their childhood, some blame mental disorders,hate and jealousy. I do not understand how or what people like this are thinking, I dont think any sane person can. But one thing is for sure pure evil are greatly to blame. Look at child and animal abusers, rapists and murderers, In their mind their actions are rational. Even the best psychologist cannot completely understand these kind of people. One thing is for sure they should not be allowed to walk free on the streets. Sometimes even death are better than life.

[@alasskaluna2446]

Correction, you don't do this to any LIVING being, human or otherwise. Why always this distinction of "human" beings? It's bloody annoying and it's the kind of attitude we need to change. It's not ok to hurt anyone, human or otherwise, full stop.

[@paularoehl-johnson9991]

Alasska Luna You are weird, quit trying to make what I said into a "drama" thing, go away!

[@GrandMasterKai]

Leif Arvidsson the devil... oh please grow up... he isnt real lol and again even death is better.. wow arent you silly in death there is no pain so that is pointless.. I'll leave you with your childish thoughts and logic but I must remind you the bible is nothing more than a fairy tale book there is as much as evidence of god as there is in Santa or dragons.. Grow up

[@allavolodina471]

Why HUMAN? How is a HUMAN better than any other living organism?

[@metalhottie44]

all these women are incredibly beautiful, strong, and an inspiration to us all!!!!

[@nuggeTiTi]

And up till today, Patricia lefranc still hasn't gotten a proper facial reconstruction??? Why? Why bother showing her a photoshopped image of what she might look like and not getting even a single thing done? Ive tried google but apparently it seems like they're hiding the fact that they didn't do anything for her. All that old ass doc hope for is people to forget what he said to Patricia. At least try to put in effort like what he did to Katie. Is it because she's a model/ celeb, she deserves more recognition? Patricia, stay strong. You're an angel for being pure and strong.

[@chloeeng6811]

really

[@jennaavw]

yes, the men who attacked these women are monsters. but I believe another monster is the plastic surgeon who was able to make Katie beautiful again-he got Patricia's hopes up, and let her down. he only did it for the cameras; I doubt he ever planned to help her. what a despicable, selfish man.

[@stephaniemitchell8509]

+Jenna Trowbridge Agreed, I noticed the same thing. Even the way he talked about her, like she was a monster, was horrendous. It was all done for cameras and fame, not true concern for her.

[@gina1emo]

I don't understand why this surgeon can't do the Belgium woman's face also. It's only fair to help these poor victims/ survivors. Pls everyone help these women get all the help they need. God Bless xoxo

[@roxanaspicer6239]

I'm proud to have been able to bring this story to an international audience, and to have been recognized this spring by the New York International Film Festival. The World Bronze Medal is a win for our entire creative team, and especially for those women brave enough to share their stories.

[@charmainehernandez6219]

In my own eyes, I'm seeing a very beautiful woman from within despite of tragedy. She's that type of woman I'm looking forward to meet despite of our vain and materialistic world we are currently living in.

[@TheWritersBlockLibrary]

They are the truest form of beauty!

[@MecanicalEnd]

That's horrible. How could you do that to another person?

[@ChrisHenniker]

If someone threw acid at me, I'd wish I was dead. It's attempted murder, if you ask me, so I'd wish my attacker would finish the job and be done with it .

[@Greeneflower]

Humans can be amazingly strong-willed and wonderful beings.

[@CARIBNATURALS]

I don't cry often but this won the day! Made me question my faith in humanity and realise that I have so much to be thankful for.

[@carolinepruett3862]

I don't care what anyone says or thinks..These girls are still beautiful.

[@RejectThrowsKnives]

The last girl is actually really pretty

[@kellinepickett4979]

I got the feeling that that doctor was playing it up for the cameras but wasn't sincere. What do you know? He has rethought her case.

[@nicolejones8826]

U have strength and courage. I appeciate u for telling your story. Thank u.

[@TomatoSoupxD]

How can people be so evil?!

[@The_torero]

You see what jealousy/insecurity can do to some men?

[@besmajubran5244]

@Just Me that's very true! Women can be just as bad as men! Karla Homolka is living proof of that!

[@Saphirakii]

"he's sentenced to the maximum for attempted murder, 30 years-" WHAT THE FUCK THAT AINT THE MAXIMUM

[@cathyrusso9742]

This is beyond my comprehension.....how a human being could do this to another.

[@crashchaplin3561]

A person who would do this needs REAL punishment not jail time

[@BlammmSugnin]

can't even express in words how horrified and angry I am about this.

[@sweetbecky1000]

May God Bless these Amazing courageous woman

[@shendrika7]

I cried watching this. I don't know how these women cope with their burns. I got sick last year and I was taking some pills to cure my disease and they ruined my face. I no longer look the same and it's hard to look at myself sometimes. I'm glad to know that the attackers were arrested and put behind bars, but jail time is not enough. They should get a taste of their own medicine. When your face is destroyed, your life is ruined.

[@bebolado7135]

I Love Dr Jawad he is from Pakistan a very Talented Doctor for Stolen Faces

[@listerdean2332]

this really depresses me.. I think women who cut off men's cox and men who throw acid in women's faces are the absolute lowest of the low.. Maybe, probably worse than killing someone... Torture like this is so terrible

[@Devil9290]

So many things are wrong in this world...and you sir are one of them...

[@candyxoxo506]

I strongly believe perpetrators who uses acid to attack should be punished with a dose of their own medicine😈

[@my4daughter]

you are very lucky that your face was not much damage..that is a good news too... and you have a beautiful eyes..

[@christohr9957]

This is absolutely appalling! These guys are some seriously evil bastards!

[@KMLogue]

Anyone who hurts another human being like this are monsters. I wish they looked like their victims and their victims had their faces again because they deserve it!

[@TheDrjaydrjay]

Aicd?!? Have I travelled back in time 2000 years?! ... Or to India?!

[@PJToxophilus]

Fucking hell. This is so difficult to comprehend. The evil

[@zaraphillips7993]

Omg I feel sorrow for these ladies,., Sickened to the atrocities these repulsive.

[@consessiazhang6112]

I totally agree with you 100%.

[@kingcrimson234]

You named your channel after an aspect ratio?

[@christohr9957]

High Def...

[@bardockm5320]

I can't believe that this is that common.

[@cutecookie8612]

+Bardock M same here, can't trust nobody now a days.

[@tiky141]

Today's The Times and The Sunday Times reports on the alarming increase in acid attacks in the UK. Police forces recorded 340 incidents in the first six months of 2016, meaning that the number of attacks is likely to have significantly exceeded last year’s total of 408 and has already eclipsed the 206 attacks that were recorded in 2010.

[@ashleyp287]

Wow the 2nd girls face barely looks like she was attacked with acid. The plastic surgeons did a wonderful job. Seems like her injuries were more to her body. I saw another case of this and the woman's race was destroyed but after a year of surgeries she has made incredible improvement.

[@IshmeneMakemillz]

her face was saved by rinsing the acid herself? she is smart right?

[@marciam6224]

But WHY did they do it?? I commend these women for being strong enough to overcome what their attacker tried to take from them. God Bless them!!

[@gina1emo]

I don't understand why this surgeon can't do the Belgium woman's face also. It's only fair to help these poor victims/ survivors. Pls everyone help these women get all the help they need. God Bless xoxo

[@Annasea666]

It's amazing the Brussels woman's eyes were spared.

[@yussynas]

These women are beautiful even though their attacks tried to kill and destroy their outer beauty. Please be strong and remember they did not take much from you because beauty is on the inside. To me you ladies look gorgeous Masha allah.

[@naturalk8290]

I'm so sacred now I'm gonna watch out now from evil human being in this world lucky I live in New Zealand they doesn't do that

[@MyIceman12345]

Sadness fills my heart :"( god bless them

[@YooTuba]

Yeah that really disturbed me also. The lady looks disfigured, yes, but she doesn't look like a horrible monster.

[@bleedingbanshe13]

I don't feel grossed out by these survivors. Only sympathy, and the urge to know them better.

[@reinhilde100]

Just so sick !!!

[@karissapatel4479]

They are definitely not getting the right amount of justice. I wish that the acid attacker didn't just get jailed but also get acid thrown on his face and see what it is like. I am utterly shocked at how vile they are and how much it impacts the victim. This made me cry.

[@tinkabell39]

My heart kinda felt it was twisted and all my soul drained out of it...how..how can somebody do that to anybody...

[@ILikeLipstick]

I think most of her scarring was on her body, which she had covered almost entirely. Also she said that she washed her face and body for 45 minutes while the ambulance came to stop the acid from eating into more of her tissue, muscle, etc.

[@SuziMcCrory]

Ain't nothing but a barn dance, Sugar; Ain't nothing but a round and round...

[@brittnimacpherson2958]

these poor women :/ this happens all over the world what a disgrace so many fucked up people!

[@nybsbfan18]

Tanya doesn't look as bad as the other victim. How can 1 sister say she can't bear to look at her after she calls herself a monster?! I think the men's faces should be beat up in prison!

[@akimotokumiko7659]

Wow I'm dumb, I thought it was hard to get your hands on real acid. That's pretty cool.

[@toddhitts4384]

I cannot believe her sisters testimony. She would never let her children see that monster. So sad. It makes me sick

[@chloeeng6811]

She is not the monster

[@tomislavjakusmejarec5194]

In this life, you are either a victim,the one who victimizes or an observer.This is a sick world.

[@paigewilkinson1674]

Katie Piper was attacked March 31st - not 1st of April

[@WhatTechShow]

Hole crap!! When I heard "suburban montreal" I was like: THATS WHERE I LIVE!!! I have to be more careful now :/

[@blastdude12]

I work at a chemistry stockroom for my university as a side job. we have sulfuric acid there, and in each lab. It wouldnt be difficult in the slightest for someone to steal it. To buy the chemicals our universities use, we go online and order it, so Im sure people can do that as well. Concentrated 100% sulfuric acid is horrible, as Ive got a couple drops on me and it burns right through. Of course, Im in charge of lowering the concentration before lab usage.

[@pattskatoey3139]

My god. What bastard would do that to somebody.

[@crashchaplin3561]

A very sick one

[@Lorenzio88]

A man.

[@besmajubran5244]

I feel so awful for Patricia and these other women! They went through a living hell! I didn't like that she called herself a monster! She's not a monster! If anyone is a monster, it's that vicious man who tried to kill her!

[@Rjkooljay2]

Le doctor et les pauvres femmes rellement, ils sont mes nouveaux heros!

[@martigrecia5645]

i swear, we, women must go and tolerate such abuse at the hands of some "supposed" men! i was a volunteer to a women's abuse counseling refuge-and the women who came in-had gone through abuse that to me, at first-i could not accept having happened. many of these women, though severly hurt-would often gone back to the abusers-beleiving they were loved. "but what kind of love, is that?" we'd often ask-however the women did not know.forr me, it became terribly frustrating to not be able to convince these victims-that "love" was NOT getting hurt, epecially in the worst of cases.

[@charoy19]

dit is niet normaal hoor als je zoiets doet

[@johnhall77]

I live right down the road from you. I'll see you tomorrow.

[@jamesrosa2317]

M.S.D.S. is it true milk neutrizalize acid?

[@akimotokumiko7659]

Where do hey even get the acid?

[@christinab9420]

How savage started

[@crystalidx]

If that was my mother, I would never forgive myself...

[@FunSizeSpamberguesa]

Facially, Tanya got lucky. The scarring isn't bad, and her eyes are undamaged. I want to know where these guys got sulfuric acid in the first place, since it's not exactly something you can buy at the grocery store. Proper punishment would have been to have acid thrown in their faces.

[@michaelnitsch4431]

although medical science will not acknowledge it. there is a man who was able to regrow his own skin after it was torn off him. he also wrote a book about it.

[@lindastoeckel2729]

When will we look past the wrapping and see the gifts inside

[@vandercudo]

Tanya actually looks really pretty on the outside,however i believe there are scars on the inside that no ammount of doctors can heal...

[@salvadorsalvador4735]

Wow!!! how can people do this,with no feelings:-(

[@kawaiipotato1870]

Those people who did this to these women should feel horrible shame for the rest of their life.

[@tiky141]

No alas they do not recover at all in question they are even happy to have done it

[@JOSHIEMITZ]

This is in you-tubes entertainment section!!!!? thats sick.

[@shirley1091]

Where are all thes ppl getting acid? It should be a very controlled substance

[@knightlife98]

These men need to face the exact thing they did to these women.

[@StephenS-2024]

Reminds me of a girl I once knew. Beautiful girl. Mindy. In a case of mistaken identity a jealous boyfriend thought Mindy was his cheating girlfriend in the backseat of a car at a shopping center. He three a Molotov cocktail in her lap. Sad story.

[@Phillip3348]

Problem is that men are supposed to be the strong silent type and expressing emotions is seen as a sign as weakness. Anger is the only emotion a man should and expect to have.

[@hughlingard]

If you are monstrous enough to throw acid on another human being's face, than you should have to suffer the same fate as well.

[@emilyesserman900]

I cannot believe her brother said such hurtful things. That's your sister. So mean

[@seppuku8415]

I am angry because I feel powerless to help. Why couldn't I been given an army to help fight evil where it breed?

[@Txboy85A]

Wow, this makes me feel sick.

[@mikechapman1430]

Damn