Pro-life woman hospitalized after terrifying attack by knife-wielding man at Life Chain

A photo taken by Faye shows some of her pro-life friends that she witnesses with.

TORONTO, October 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Faye Arellano is glad to be alive and back home after being discharged from hospital following a terrifying attack by a knife-wielding man while protesting abortion this weekend in Toronto.  

Arellano, in her late 40s, was attending a silent and prayerful Life Chain pro-life event on Sunday afternoon when she was suddenly assaulted by the man, who at first doused her with water from a bottle, then hurled the empty bottle at her face, grabbed her by the hair, slammed her to the ground, and began punching and kicking her repeatedly before drawing his knife.

“I’m sure he must have been motivated by hatred of what he was seeing at that time,” Arellano, who was released from the hospital early Monday morning, told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).

Detective Remo D’antonio of the Toronto Police Service told LSN that Michael Panagapko of Toronto has been arrested and charged with three counts of assault, one count of assault with a weapon, and one count of wielding a dangerous weapon. 

D’antonio said that charges against Panagapko were “all criminal code offenses”. Two of the counts of assault relate to Panagapko’s attacks against an unidentified male victim who was part of the pro-life group and who came between Arellano and her attacker. According to a witness, he suffered a knife wound to his hand in the process.  (more...)

Pro-life woman hospitalized after terrifying attack by knife-wielding man at Life Chain