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BRUTAL PHOTOS — Texas republican ‘gagged, bound, tortured’ in hotel attack…
‘I knew if I fought back that I would not live’…
A former Texas state Senate candidate claims she was “gagged, bound [and] tortured” in a hotel — and three people have been arrested in connection with the assault.
Vanessa Tijerina, a Republican who lost in the November election, said she received a call about meeting to discuss “something very important regarding her safety” at a Texas Inn in Raymondville, news station KVEO reported.
“They made it seem like they had something really, really important to tell me and they couldn’t tell me on the phone,” Tijerina, 42, said in a tearful Facebook Live video.
Instead, she was beaten to a pulp by the group on Christmas Eve, leaving her face severely bruised, eyes swollen and teeth damaged.
“I was beaten. I was terrorized, bound, gagged, tortured,” Tijerina said Monday in another Facebook Live video.