Man gets 10 years for dousing 2 with acid

The accused was using sulfuric acid to make methamphetamine.
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for dousing two people with acid in an argument over drugs, leaving them with severe chemical burns.
Ross County Common Pleas Judge William J. Corzine gave David W. Howard Jr., 30, of South Salem, seven years for the injuries to Andrea Seymour and an additional three years for the injuries suffered by Marcus Horsley in the June 29 attack. A jury found Howard guilty of two counts of felonious assault.
What happened
Howard had been making methamphetamine and Horsley was apparently demanding that he make more, Assistant Ross County Prosecutor Matthew Schmidt said. The two got into a yelling match in the parking lot of a Chillicothe apartment complex.
When Seymour, who was Horsley's girlfriend at the time, stepped in to separate the men, Howard pulled out a bottle of a powerful sulfuric acid drain opener used in production of the drug, Schmidt said.
"He had it on his person, pulled it out of his pocket, took the cap off and flung it on them," Schmidt said.
Howard testified that he had given Horsley a scalpel earlier and feared he would be killed.
The two victims were burned on the head and face, arms, shoulders and chest and were hospitalized for more than a month, Schmidt said. Horsley was not charged.
At the sentencing hearing, Seymour said she "would live with the scars for the rest of my life" and that she is no longer a normal person.
Later, Howard's mother, Joann, responded by saying that "beauty isn't on the outside, it's on the inside." That statement drew a rebuke from Corzine, who called it "one of the most callous things I've ever heard in this courtroom."
The judge told David Howard, "Maybe that's why you're where you are today."