Feline Warrior

Story - Attack Survivor Dies in Cruise Ship Jump - AOL News

RIP: David Ritcheson

I don’t have the words to describe how sad this makes me. It drums up old anger about the violence done to David, but his ending is just… well, I have no words.

“David Ritcheson, 18, died after jumping from a cruise ship Sunday. The Mexican-American was beaten unconscious and sodomized in a 2006 attack that nearly killed him and forced him to endure two dozen painful surgeries.”

Here’s a bit from the article:

“Ritcheson, a Mexican-American, was beaten and sodomized with a patio umbrella pole. He also was stomped on and burned with cigarettes, and his attackers poured bleach on him before leaving.

“He was hospitalized for more than three months and endured some 30 operations. Two men were convicted of aggravated sexual assault in the attack.”