Before her injury fully healed, Kayla Hayes couldn’t stand the looks people would give her.
And while she had to desperately put on a brave face for her mother after her surgery, Hayes was hurting inside.
The 19-year-old recounted her experience on Facebook about the day when her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Seth Fleury, who she describes as her “worst nightmare,” bit off her bottom lip.
The incident occurred in October 2017 as Hayes was attempting to break up with her abusive partner, when he went in for an uninvited kiss.
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 shared that 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.”
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
