Doctor Remembers How Internet Dating Almost Cost Her Life

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A year after being attacked in her own home by the man she had met through Tinder, Dr. Angela Jay appeared before a special breakfast to share with members of the Australian Parliament to tell the hell it almost cost her. life.

The Dr., originally from California and a resident of South Wales, was brutally attacked last year by Paul Lambert, 36, with whom she had established a blind date through that popular romantic dating application. Soon after Jay, 28, began to be harassed by her to the point that she had to file a restraining order against her. However, this only increased the obsession the man who a few days later appeared at his house to attack him: first he stabbed him eleven times and then he sprayed her with gasoline with the intention of burning her alive.

"When I saw his knife go up and down, it took my brain a while to understand what was really stabbing me," he told deputies and senators in Parliament on Tuesday.

"I remember (having had) a different thought: I'm going to bleed to death." And then he described how he felt an even deeper pain at the thought that he would never see his family or friend again, or even hold them in his arms. And so she found the strength to rise from the ground … Only to be surprised again by her attacker, who dropped a shower of gasoline on her.

“It ran down my face and through my hair. It inflamed my eyes and I coughed when the fumes began to suffocate me, she said.

But it was in that moment of indescribable horror, when she was waiting to be set on fire, that her adrenaline accelerated and somehow ran for her life.

His story had a great impact on some of the politicians who attended this meeting conducted by White Ribbon, an organization that fights against domestic violence. Some of them said they will advocate for increased support for victims of domestic violence.