Monday, September 18, 2017

ChicagoTrib: U.S. students in France acid attack show compassion for assailant - Cops say mental illness involved (that's for sure) --tma



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American college students attacked with acid at a train station in France have offered compassion and prayers for their assailant, who authorities say suffers from a mental illness.
French authorities have said they don't believe extremist views motivated the 41-year-old woman arrested in the attack on the four Boston College students, who are studying abroad.
One of the students, Courtney Siverling, said in a post on Facebook that she was not injured and that all the women are "safe."
"I pray that the attacker would be healed from her mental illness in the name of Jesus and receive the forgiveness and salvation that can only come from Him," said Siverling, of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. ...