Tied up and mutilated after exposing a secret deal: An Irishwoman’s harrowing ordeal

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Maureen Kearney was brushing her teeth in the bathroom of her home outside Paris on the morning of December 17th, 2012, when a man pulled a knit cap over her head, sealed her mouth with gaffer tape and dragged her to the basement. Her assailant carved a capital A on Kearney’s stomach, pushed her on to a chair, taped her wrists behind her back and bound her ankles to the chair legs. Then he shoved the handle of the knife into her vagina. Hours passed before Kearney was discovered, in shock and moaning with pain, by her cleaning lady. Kearney...