Woman Brutally Beaten on Premises of Her Apartment Complex
Thankfully, most of us will never be victims of assault, but it does happen all too frequently, and many times it is due to inadequate security at the facility where the crime occurs.
One such event took place in Boca Raton, Florida one August evening after the victim of this Florida premises liability case returned home from a dinner party at a friend’s home at approximately 1:30 a.m. The victim in this case was a 44 year old married woman who was at the time separated from her husband and living alone in an apartment complex.
This particular evening, after having only one drink at the dinner party, the victim accepted the offer of a friend to drive her home. The friend dropped her off at the entrance to her apartment complex, and she remembers walking into the complex by the guard gatehouse and waving at the guard. However, she does not recall whether he saw her and she definitely does not know whether he acknowledged her wave.
On her way to her apartment, she was accosted and brutally beaten by assailants and left for dead. The victim, thankfully, has no recall of the incident. According to the police, she was apparently beaten near the dumpster in the complex, as there was a lot of blood in that area and on the wall next to the dumpster. At this time, it is unclear whether the victim was struck by someone’s hands or a blunt object. The police believe she was either dragged from the dumpster toward her door or she crawled on her own because there was evidence on both of her elbows and knees of being dragged. The only thing taken from this victim was her purse, but no jewelry and unbelievably she had a $2,000.00 bracelet on her arm that was not taken.
She was eventually found by a neighbor who lives on the third floor of the complex (our victim lives on the first floor) at approximately 4:00 a.m. on the ground near her apartment door unconscious. The beating was so severe and disfiguring that the neighbors were unable to identify her but told the responding officers that they thought she was the female that resided in Apartment 14.
The victim was taken to Delray Medical Center as a trauma patient. She was admitted and treated for multiple facial lacerations, facial trauma, subcranial hemorrhage, abrasions to her feet, legs, back, arms, buttocks and obvious emotional injuries. Radiology reports revealed a fractured nasal bone, a potential fracture to her mandible and the previously mentioned subarachnoid brain hemorrhage. She was discharged after several days to be followed up by her physicians which included a neurologist, psychiatrist, maxillofacial surgeon, and dentist.
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