Straphanger blinded by vagrant in random attack says she is grateful to be alive in statement read at sentencing

Being in court today would have brought back so much pain, tears and bad memories, the kind of pain and memories I'm trying to forget.

He should not have been out on the streets," the judge said. "He should have been in a mental hospital, a state hospital being treated there. Because he showed time after time when he was released and taken off his meds, he continued to commit crimes.

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