Eric Persaud, Queens man who burned girlfriend's face with hot iron, sentenced to 13 years in prison
BY THOMAS ZAMBITO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
A Queens man who burned his girlfriend's face with a hot iron while their three children watched was sentenced to 13 years in prison Wednesday by a judge who called the gruesome attack "horrendous and sick."
Eric Persaud apologized to his girlfriend and urged her to be a good mother to their young children.
"My actions were cowardly and there was no excuse for losing my cool," Persaud told Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak, his voice trembling.
Lasak scolded Persaud for forcing the woman to turn up the heat on the iron so he could permanently scar her for calling the cops over an earlier attack.