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Colombian acid survivor seeks tougher justice for 'an identity erased'

By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Natalia Ponce de Leon's life was shattered within seconds when a stalker hurled acid at her outside the family home in an upscale part of the Colombian capital last year. The sulphuric acid devoured Ponce's face, neck, abdomen and legs, melting her skin and leaving a quarter of her body burnt in an attack that shocked the Latin American country. Although acid attacks are most common in South Asia, Colombia reported one of the highest rates per capita in the world in 2012. Under Colombian law, acid attacks are defined as personal injury, a crime carrying a maximum 15-year prison sentence.

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