Rape Victim Lives After 100 Stabbings, Second Knife Attack

A 20-year-old woman managed to crawl for help after being raped, stabbed more than 100 times, left for dead along a dirt road and then stabbed again after the assailant returned, authorities said.

The woman was reported in stable condition Thursday after undergoing surgery for stab wounds in her chest, abdomen, legs, throat and head. The attack occurred early Wednesday near Nederland.

“Somebody out there knows this guy, and they’d better turn him in, because he is one vicious animal,” sheriff’s Lt. Steve Prentup said in appealing for help in the case. “What the victim did in this case was nothing less than heroic. We want to find the guy who did this.”