Woman Almost Dies After Being Beaten By Man She Met On Instagram
Y'all can't just trust anybody!!
A California woman learned that the hard way after she met up for a date with a man she met on Instagram. The night went well until she woke up the next morning brutally beaten with no recollection of what happened to her.
The victim, India Ali, 32, first saw pictures of James Baker, 27, on Instagram.
“He didn’t really look like a creep from his pictures. He looked like he had it going on,” Ali told CW affiliate KTLA.
After perusing his photos, Ali agreed to go on a date with Baker, which baker documented on social media. He posted several videos of the pair drinking and partying at a restaurant, before luring Ali back to his room at the Westin hotel near LAX.
The following morning, Ali woke up in Baker’s hotel room, not knowing what had happened.
“I woke up. I lifted my head up. I was lying in a puddle of throw up. So I look around and I see blood everywhere and my clothes everywhere,” she told KTLA.
She was alone in the room when she caught her reflection in the mirror. Ali’s wounds showed that she had been badly beaten.
“Oh my god. I can’t believe that happened. What if they come back and kill me?” she thought, she told KTLA.
Her car and cell phone missing, she used the landline in the hotel room to call 911 and describe her predicament to cops.
“There’s blood all over the room,” she said, a recording of the call shows. “I’m hurt in my face.”
Ali was taken to Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, where doctors determined she had suffered serious head injuries. She was so badly beaten that her brain swelled and was forced down, which put pressure on her fourth vertebrae and caused her to vomit, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney David Berger said.
Baker, who had prior convictions and was on bail for allegedly using fake credit cards, was found guilty of assaulting Ali. His sentencing was postponed earlier this month. -(NY Daily News)
She's lucky to be alive!