PUNTA CANA, D.R. (CBS NEWS) — A Dominican Republic resort has responded after a Delaware woman shared her story of being savagely attacked while vacationing at the Majestic Elegance Punta Cana Hotel, CBS Philadelphia reports.
Tammy Lawrence-Daley, of Wilmington, was on vacation with her husband in January when says she went downstairs on the property to buy a snack.
That’s when Lawrence-Daley says a man wearing a resort maintenance hat and shirt strangled and brutally beat her. Lawrence-Daley suffered a broken nose, fractured eye socket, nerve damage throughout her head and her entire mouth had to be sewn back together.
“It’s very difficult, very difficult reliving,” Lawrence-Daley said in an interview last week. “I could hear footfalls behind me. And before I could turn around, he plowed into the back of me.”
Her disappearance lasted eight hours and the whole while she was going in and out of consciousness.
“When I came to, it was to him beating me,” Lawrence-Daley said. “About the head. Kicking me and beating me.”