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.
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Conspiracy to deny civil rights.
Acid attacks to the face have always been a special category of evil. Like torture and killing of dogs, the criminal has to face justice whether the faulty judicial system works or not.
3 of Islam’s favorite methods of Jihad......
Seriously, I hope she is well on her way to a full recovery and that they catch the vile monster that did this.
> Acid attacks to the face have always been a special category of evil. <
Yes, indeed. I’m not saying it happened here. Monsters come in all flavors. But acid attacks are often a Muslim thing. Sometimes it happens because the woman is not dressed “modestly”.
Notice that our phones can take a picture of a grasshopper from 20 feet away and get such a clear picture we can count its toes.
Security cameras in public places are so out of focus it’s almost hard to tell the sex or race of a perp. Bigfoot pictures have more clarity.
Or because she rejected him.
Funny. How many here know who the real Van Johnson was?
Sort of like Larry Parks looked in The Jolson Story and Jolson sings Again.
“I walk around this park a lot, even at night,” Wasielewski told WJCL. “You just don’t expect something like this to happen here.”
I am NOT blaming the victim here, but Ladies? Seriously? Don’t do stupid stuff to put yourself in danger!
And I agree with the other posters; hanging’s too good for this COWARD Jihadi.
Btt
The image on his hoodie looks pretty unique. I would try to track that item down as a start.
So no one in Savannah had noticed a black homeless guy wearing a sweatshirt with a pink cartoon bunny (and it looks to have been worn for a couple of months). Yeah.
He was on the Johnny Carson Show many times when I was growing up.
Why did he throw acid on that poor woman?
“Funny. How many here know who the real Van Johnson was?”
His acting hey day was before my time but I remember his Post Oak Flakes Cereal commercials as a kid in the 70’s
“Oats” but good old Euell Gibbons would have been up for some Oak in his Grapenuts.
Or because the attacker attempted to rape a white woman and she fought back.
This sounds more plausible.
GBI needs to get involved if the police and mayor are trying to mis-direct the investigation, or maybe just straight up cover up.
Van Johnson starred in one of my favorite movies, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, and when I was watching the movie later in life, I noticed there was something odd about him-he had what appeared to be huge scars across his forehead and on his face that I hadn’t noticed before.
Turned out he had been in an accident the year before in 1943 that nearly killed him, had scalped him from the forehead up, and across his face, necessitating a metal plate in his head. So for the rest of his career, he had to wear heavy makeup to try unsuccessfully to fully conceal those scars.
Because of that, he was unable to enter the service during the war.
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