A teenager was left with a fractured skull and permanent brain damage after her boyfriend nearly beat her to death. Megan McPartlin, 18, has bravely spoken out about the horrific injuries inflicted by her ex Aaron Worthington, 23. They were celebrating New Year’s Eve at their home when he knocked Megan unconscious and punched her to a pulp. Megan couldn’t walk after the attack and suffered three brain injuries, fractures to her right eye and face and a bleed on the brain. It took surgeons five hours to remove pieces of her broken skull and replace it with a metal plate, saving her life. Seven months later, the brave carer says she is still in pain and can feel the metal screws in her head.
Megan was 16 when she met Aaron and they were in a relationship for two and a half years. It didn’t start out violent but within a year, smacks started turning into punches. She said she now knows he was manipulating her, but she felt ‘trapped’ at the time.
She said: ‘I did threaten to leave many times but he was having none of it. ‘He threw my bags, broke my things and stood at the door so I couldn’t go. ‘But I didn’t really want to go, I was completely smitten by him. No matter what he did, he was always in the right and I was in the wrong. ‘That’s how he made me feel. Everything I did was wrong. But it was really him.’
She said: ‘When I was in that relationship, I was so weak, I cried every single day. I never had any confidence. ‘But now that he’s not here, I’m unbreakable. I don’t cry, nothing bothers me.’ She added: ‘There is life after all that. You’re going to meet somebody else. ‘I’ve met somebody who has looked after me while I’ve been poorly, given me medication. ‘He does everything he never did. You learn afterwards that you never needed to be treated like that.
Girl, 18, beaten so badly by boyfriend it left her permanently brain damaged
Megan McPartlin says her controlling ex Aaron Worthington will be released in less than a year for the attack that gave her life-long injuries.
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