SLASH GIRL’S HELL
Tells of fear with attacker on loose
The 16yearold Chinese exchange student who was viciously slashed in Queens last week says she has been left with terrible nightmares after the unprovoked attack, which left her with 200 stitches in her face and neck.
“The wound is still very painful,” the shaken girl told The Post Monday night through a translator. “I just feel horrible, horrible.”
The teen, whose name is being withheld because her boxcutter-wielding assailant is still on the loose, said the slashing has left her unable to eat solid foods.
“I just don’t want this to happen to anyone else,” said the girl, who speaks only Cantonese.
The teen had just left her host family’s home last Wednesday and was on her way to school at the Whitestone Academy. She was at 147th Street and 13th Avenue when a man wearing a surgical mask and white gloves rushed up behind her and attacked.
He sliced the girl’s face and neck before dropping the boxcutter and fleeing.
The wounded 11thgrader, who attends the private school on a student visa, stumbled back to the home drenched in blood.
She hasn’t been back to classes since.
“I’m concerned about going to back to school” she said, noting that she is worried that her attacker is still on the loose.
The teen was wearing her eyeglasses at the time of the attack, and they likely “saved” her from being blinded, according to her aunt.
The woman said her niece has undergone three surgeries and added that the attack left her with two deep scars: one running from her left eye down to her jaw, and another across her neck.
The girl’s mother, who flew in from Guangzhou, China, Saturday morning to be with her, said the girl is “blessed she avoided worse.”
“I was afraid,” said the mother, who asked not to be named. “I was shocked. Why would something like this happen to my daughter? My daughter is innocent. Why my daughter?”
Assemblyman Ron Kim (DFlushing) penned a letter on Monday to Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña on the family’s behalf, asking for the girl to be transferred to a “larger high school with better security.”
“It’s these random acts of violence that make us feel afraid in our own neighborhood,” Kim told The Post.
“Everyone in the community wants the perpetrator to be caught as soon as possible so we can feel safe.”