Lauren Huxley’s incredible recovery 20 years after brutal attack

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Lauren Huxley was an 18-year-old TAFE student when she was savagely beaten by a stranger and left to die in her suburban home. Miraculously, the teenager pulled through, learning to walk, talk and eat again. 20 years on, Lauren and her family are confronting a new fear.

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00:01Brush it out a bit, yeah?

00:04Yeah.

00:05So it's softer.

00:06Yeah.

00:07It's always been a love of mine to make people look and feel good.

00:10It's a beauty about hair. It grows back, right?

00:12Yeah.

00:13What better way to do that with my sister?

00:16She's got little scars on her head and, you know, I try and fluff it up to hide things.

00:21Turn to me, please.

00:22Oh, you want to get my makeup?

00:25I can't believe it's been 20 years already.

00:29I know, time has gone so far.

00:31Yeah, definitely.

00:32Slow but fast at the same time, I think.

00:34This was a terrible crime story.

00:37There's been a brutal crime in Sydney's west abashing which has left an 18-year-old girl clinging to life.

00:43Lauren Huxley was left to die in the garage of her Northmead home.

00:48Here's this innocent 18-year-old girl who's attacked by a brute and somehow she survived.

00:54She survived with, obviously, her own courage and her own determination but a family the like of which I've never come across.

01:01Do you remember when, back in the early days was, when I used to always do your makeup to help cover up your scars?

01:09Yeah.

01:10Yeah.

01:11Yeah.

01:12But now they're pretty amazing how much they've faded.

01:15I think if this didn't happen to Lauren, her life today would look different.

01:21She has permanent injuries that she'll live with for the rest of her life which she's taken with grace.

01:28And you shouldn't be ashamed of it to show your scars.

01:31It shows what you've gone through.

01:35I've accepted all my scars and all my injuries and I'm not self-conscious.

01:43Whoever I meet along the way, I don't want them to treat me any different to anyone else because, you know, I'm just like everyone else.

01:55You happy?

01:56Yeah.

01:57That'll cost you $200.

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