Victim rips ‘shameless’ slasher
A social worker who was slashed in the face in the East Village last year blasted his attacker’s lack of remorse as “nauseating shamelessness” in court Monday.
“I have moments where I’m really filled with anger at what you did to me, and that this took so long and what seems like your nauseating shamelessness,” Anthony Christopher Smith (top) told defendant Francis Salud (bottom), 29, who took a plea deal in exchange for 14 years in prison.
“If it was up to me, you’d be in jail longer,” continued Smith, 31, in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Salud, without provocation, slashed Smith’s face Jan. 16, 2016, as he walked along East Sixth Street near Third Avenue, and left him for dead, blood gushing from his mouth and neck.
Smith, who had been on his way to meet a pal, will likely need more surgeries in the future.
Salud had been out on bail at the time of the slashing for slicing an acquaintance with a knife in a dispute over cigarettes on Oct. 18, 2015.
He copped to two counts of assault as part of the plea deal, which covered both cases.