Girl has 80 stitches in face

Press, 30 October 1981, Page 3

Girl has 80 stitches in face

PA • Hamilton “I would like the person who threw the bottle to see my daughter’s face now,” said Mrs Maureen Stott, whose daughter, Kimberley, was released from hospital yesterday with 80 stitches in the face.

Miss Stott, aged 14, suffered many cuts to the head when a beer bottle was thrown through the window of a car driven by her mother in Whitianga last Saturday evening.

Mrs Stott said, “She is not a pretty sight.” Mrs Stott appealed for information which would lead to the arrest of her daughter's attackers, saying, “We just want these people brought to court to face their responsibilities." Miss Stott, who said that she was still sore and “a bit tearful every time I look in the mirror,” hopes to return to Te Kuiti at the week-end to see her friends. Most of

her stitches are expected to be.taken out today.

Miss Stott said, “The doctors said the scars should start to fade in about 12 months." She is an enthusiastic athlete, who had hoped to compete in her school’s crosscountry championship next week.

She said, “My coach has told me not to run because he is scared I might trip up and wreck all the work done by the surgeons. I will have to go along with that.” During ' preliminary runs for the event Miss Stott finished three minutes ahead of her rivals for the title.

She said, “I was hopeful of winning (the championship).”

She will also miss her school examinations in two weeks.

She said, “I cannot study. My vision goes all blurry after two or three minutes of trying to read.”