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Georgia Acid Attack Victim Lashes Out at Savannah Mayor and Police For Withholding Video Evidence, Suggesting She Personally Knew Suspect
The Gateway Pundit ^ | May 15, 2026 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/15/2026 5:14:34 PM PDT by Red Badger

Last December, a Georgia woman sustained severe burns to her face, neck, and scalp after a stranger emerged from the bushes at a Forsyth park and doused her in acid.

According to law enforcement, a black male approached the victim, Ashley Wasielewski, while she was walking around Forsyth Park and hurled acid at her.

The suspect, who is still at large, approached the victim from behind and poured the liquid chemical on her.

Wasielewski suffered third-degree burns and received treatment at Memorial Hospital in Augusta.

According to police, the attacker was not known to the victim.

“I walk around this park a lot, even at night,” Wasielewski told WJCL. “You just don’t expect something like this to happen here.”

Police previously released a photo of the attacker and asked the public for help.

Anyone with information should call CrimeStoppers, 912-234-2020, or submit an anonymous tip through the SPD mobile app.

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson, a black man, has repeatedly suggested Wasielewski knew her attacker and called it a "personal thing."

The statements from Mayor Johnson rightfully angered Wasielewski and her family.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ashleywasielewski; cristinalaila; forsythpark; furiousracism; furyspeople; gatewaypundit; georgia; itsthembooboo; vanjohnson
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To: PAR35

Maybe they know the perp...............


21 posted on 05/15/2026 7:26:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

To those opinionated people who know nothing, victim had emerged from her church.

He followed her and doused her with an industrial strength acid which melted her clothing.

Acid attacks are common Muslim tactics in sub Sharan Africa.

Savannah is one of the busiest ports on the Atlantic coast . . .

Are you proud?


22 posted on 05/15/2026 7:35:19 PM PDT by Bruce Buckley
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To: Red Badger

I don’t see how 2+2=4 with this story. Whether she knew her attacker or it was a complete stranger, how does the Mayor of Savannah saying it was a personal thing (who knows?) make it better or worse for anyone? This reads like a story looking to make a racial angle where there isn’t one. Sure, he may be talking crap, but I don’t see where calling him out as being black adds “color” (pun intended) to the story. Dems downplay crime all the time. Unless there’s another article that suggested that this was racially motivated, I don’t see the connection.

I don’t think his comments do anything to get this crime solved, sure, but I can’t see them as racially motivated based on the “facts” in the article.


23 posted on 05/15/2026 7:46:39 PM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t see how 2+2=4 with this story. Whether she knew her attacker or it was a complete stranger, how does the Mayor of Savannah saying it was a personal thing (who knows?) make it better or worse for anyone? This reads like a story looking to make a racial angle where there isn’t one. Sure, he may be talking crap, but I don’t see where calling him out as being black adds “color” (pun intended) to the story. Dems downplay crime all the time. Unless there’s another article that suggested that this was racially motivated, I don’t see the connection.

I don’t think his comments do anything to get this crime solved, sure, but I can’t see them as racially motivated based on the “facts” in the article.


24 posted on 05/15/2026 7:49:17 PM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: The Free Engineer

I used to work with all kinds of acids. Just one drop is painful.


25 posted on 05/15/2026 7:53:25 PM PDT by roving
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To: xp38

The rabbit has an occult connection, and can be used as an identifying marker also for MK Ultra, (Alice in Wonderland programming) although they tend to use butterflies, especially Monarchs. Don’t know if this is a victim of mind control or a plain perp.

The lady is the victim of horrific injury and pain and the possibility of mind control of the person that did this heinous deed does not reduce that at all. The dismissive comments by government officials causes one to wonder if they had knowledge of this sort of crime beforehand. Or if it benefits them in some way.


26 posted on 05/15/2026 9:08:38 PM PDT by Norski (Why is American no longer Christian? Because of CINO - christians in name only.)
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To: The Free Engineer

So, Big Shot Mr. Mayor approves of the acid attack? Good to know.


27 posted on 05/15/2026 9:09:14 PM PDT by healy61
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To: xp38

The rabbit has an occult connection, and can be used as an identifying marker also for MK Ultra, (Alice in Wonderland programming) although they tend to use butterflies, especially Monarchs. Don’t know if this is a victim of mind control or a plain perp.

The lady is the victim of horrific injury and pain and the possibility of mind control of the person that did this heinous deed does not reduce that at all. The dismissive comments by government officials causes one to wonder if they had knowledge of this sort of crime beforehand. Or if it benefits them in some way.


28 posted on 05/15/2026 9:09:57 PM PDT by Norski (Why is American no longer Christian? Because of CINO - christians in name only.)
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To: xp38

The rabbit has an occult connection, and can be used as an identifying marker also for MK Ultra, (Alice in Wonderland programming) although they tend to use butterflies, especially Monarchs. Don’t know if this is a victim of mind control or a plain perp.

The lady is the victim of horrific injury and pain and the possibility of mind control of the person that did this heinous deed does not reduce that at all. The dismissive comments by government officials causes one to wonder if they had knowledge of this sort of crime beforehand. Or if it benefits them in some way.


29 posted on 05/15/2026 9:10:21 PM PDT by Norski (Why is American no longer Christian? Because of CINO - christians in name only.)
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To: rlmorel

Interesting re Van Johnson. I was just a little girl -when he was in movies but knew he was very handsome.


30 posted on 05/15/2026 10:58:59 PM PDT by Veto! ((Trump is Superman))
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To: DAC21; zeestephen
“Oats” but good old Euell Gibbons would have been up for some Oak in his Grapenuts.

Regards,

31 posted on 05/15/2026 11:12:48 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Norski
The lady is the victim of horrific injury...

Why do say you that? She is the victim of a horrific, demonic MAN!.

And what he did was not merely a selfish violent crime indifferent to he personhood, dignity, humanity, her eternal soul and her status as an image bearer of Almigjty God. What he did was a public, terroristic act of torture and civil war that begs for us to hunt him down and kill him in spite and in violation of our own byzantine, laborious, lagubrious unjust and rotten justice and political systems.

32 posted on 05/16/2026 2:55:02 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“I walk around this park a lot, even at night,” Wasielewski told WJCL. “You just don’t expect something like this to happen here.”

Nonsense. Everyone knows Savannah is a dangerous place


33 posted on 05/16/2026 2:59:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Red Badger

What an odd statement from the victim “You just don’t expect something like this to happen here.”

What? Acid attack versus shooting versus stabbings versus suckerpunching? The attacker is a predator. It only takes one predator to ruin your day.

And is the City withholding video evidence of the crime?


34 posted on 05/16/2026 3:42:00 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: hole_n_one
Wasielewski suffered third-degree burns

"It's not the heat, it's the acidity." ~ Van Johnson

35 posted on 05/16/2026 3:54:29 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: hole_n_one

hah!


36 posted on 05/16/2026 4:09:56 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: Bruce Buckley

Thanks, Mom!


37 posted on 05/16/2026 5:30:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: mjustice

Hmm a black mayor is defending a black dude who poured an industrial acid on a white women after following her through a park at night?

If that’s not colorist, it sure is an odd combination of coincidence!


38 posted on 05/17/2026 6:27:25 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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