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Tammy Lawrence-Daley talks of a horrible ordeal of being attacked at a resort in the Dominican Republic earlier this year. When you see photos of her, you can have nothing but sympathy for her.

However, when I listen to her story, I have so many questions. More questions then I expect after seeing her photos. It makes me question, while she obviously was attacked, is the story she is telling us how it really happened?

The very first red flag for me is when Tammy smiles when she says she remembers that “grunt he made” when when she was attacked.

Why the happy thought here? It’s oddly out of place.

The reporter says that Tammy was pummeled, and she could feel the bones in her face crack and her teeth break, yet if you listen to her story she says she never saw his face.

This news report says he beat her for a TWO hours. That’s a long time to not see his face or have identifying information, don’t you think?

Did he beat her for two hours in an open area? Where did this take place that no one could see her or hear her? This is a resort. There are people everywhere in these places. Maybe not in a hallway for 10 minutes, but we are talking two hours!

After the beating and only then was she dragged into a “dank crawlspace”. I would assume no one ever goes into that crawlspace, but somehow her husband, not the hotel, found her?

What are the odds?

Also, notice there are no details of her husband’s search, how he felt, and how he found her? It’s all missing.

Worse, neither of the two have corroborating emotions to substantiate their story. Yes, she was beaten, but she shows no fear, sadness, terror — any negative emotion that would fit with a stranger beating like this. Instead, I see positive emotions when I least expect it.

Then she says, “All I could think of was my fath…my husband was going to find me dead.”

WHAT?

First why would you think of your father, unless your husband beat you?

And why would your husband find you dead if you were in a “dark” and “dank” crawlspace? Her father wasn’t even on this vacation from what they are reporting.

This doesn’t even fit with the story she is telling us!

The husband’s emotions don’t fit with this story, either.

And who is this maid?

If she was part of this, there is a chance she can’t speak out against the resort, so I will accept that is a possibility. But the nurse translated that she is safe??

Or does she mean she translated what the nurse said? If so, does Tammy speak Spanish? Otherwise that is bizarre, too!

Did the maid hear her whole story to know what happened to her to know she was safe?? Do you just tell random people they are safe when they are bloody. I wouldn’t.

I’m also very troubled with her “generic” statement, “It’s not safe for women to be alone.”

Wait a minute!!!!

If I was attacked at THIS resort and I knew there was an attacker on the lose THERE, I wouldn’t be telling women to be careful everywhere. I’d be specifically warning them THIS RESORT IS DANGEROUS until this man is found. But she ironically doesn’t do that.

That’s a lot of red flags for a very short story.