An American man who scalped his ex-girlfriend and forced his pitbull to attack her has told the judge he could take the sentencing without any extra talk.
“For her injuries — I feel horrible for what happened,” he told Judge Rick Brueggemann in Kentucky’s Boone County Circuit Court, reports USA Today.
“I don’t feel responsible. I maintain my innocence. It is what it is. I’m not asking for your mercy. Just give me the 20. I don’t need a lecture.”
Zachary Gross, 31, was actually sentenced to 21 years for the horrific assault on his then-girlfriend Marilyn Stanley in September 2015.
Outside court, Stanley condemned her abusive ex’s apathetic attitude.
“In anything he has said throughout this entire process, he hasn’t had any remorse for me,” she said.
Since the gruesome attack, Ms Stanley has needed a half-dozen surgeries and suffered permanent nerve damage.
Although she has no memory of the scalping, probably due to passing out from the trauma and blood loss prosecutors say, a trauma surgeon testified that the cuts to her head were consistent with the use of a sharp knife.
“It’s been proven,” Ms Stanley said. “I went in there and I had my scalp. I left and I didn’t.”
During a meal, Gross began to punch Ms Stanley in the face before detaching 70 per cent of her scalp with a knife.
When she refused to drop a knife in self-defence, Gross then set his dog ‘Capone’ on her who ripped off Ms Stanley’s ear, the sheriff’s office said.
“When he’s finished he praises the dog for the work he did. Then makes her stand in front of mirror to make her look at herself now,” Tom Scheben, spokesman for the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, told WKRC.
Gross allegedly continued, “You’re bald now. Who’s going to want you, now?”
Officials say Gross then put the mother of one’s ripped-off scalp in a plastic bag and dropped her off in her mother’s neighbourhood where she could finally call police.
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