A 23 year old woman has finally  faced and identified her attacker in court, he had brutally and callously abused her in many different ways over a 19 hour period.

The New York Times describes the treatment she endured.

Over many torturous hours, she had been repeatedly raped, sodomized and
forced to perform oral sex, a prosecutor told a jury on Thursday. The
accused, Robert A. Williams, 31, had doused the woman’s face and body
with boiling water and bleach, forced her to swallow handfuls of pills
and to chase them with beer, sealed her mouth with glue, and bound her
wrists and legs with shoelaces, cords and duct tape, said the
prosecutor, Ann P. Prunty. And now, Ms. Prunty said, he was asking the
woman to gouge out her own eyes with a pair of scissors.

Mr. Williams was intent on damaging her vision because, Ms. Prunty said, “a blind witness could never identify her attacker.”

From the Times we hear how she wanted to die

It was after the second scalding, she said, that she asked her attacker to
kill her, but he refused.

“No, you’re not good enough for that,” he reportedly said.

He ordered her to stab out her eyes and she nodded.

“I was in so much pain I decided to aim for my neck, and if I died it would be
so much quicker than how he was going to do it,” the woman testified. She
said she fell toward the knife he had propped up in a pile of clothes, but
she missed.

This enraged her attacker, she said, who began to hit her with a heavy object.
He then repeatedly beat "my face, my eye sockets, with the blunt end of
the knife,” she said. She started screaming but then blacked out.

The New York Times describes how he tried to finish her off and hide the evidence with a fire.

Mr. Williams eventually slit the woman’s eyelids and face with a
butcher knife, Ms. Prunty said, but she did not lose her vision. He
fastened her legs and arms to a futon, and she lost consciousness.

When she awoke, she again pleaded for him to kill her, but heard no response. He was gone.

Mr. Williams “only stopped when he could no longer feel the scourge of control over another human being,” Ms. Prunty said.

The
woman smelled smoke, Ms. Prunty said, so she wriggled her legs free and
pulled the futon away from the wall. She used the fire to free her
arms, Ms. Prunty said, and then ran through the smoke to her door. It
took her several attempts to open it because her hands were limp and
numb, Ms. Prunty said.

The woman ran through her hallway seeking help, Ms. Prunty said, “an image of the walking, living dead.”

While we might imagine the horror that this poor woman felt over those 19 hours, we can have no real understanding ofthe pain and mental anguish. She deserves to see this monster be locked away for life and she deserves all the praise she can be given for facing him in court.