She just turned it over to God: Prayer halted assault on 91-year-old, family says WFTV [Video]

MARION COUNTY, Fla. — An intruder who broke into a 91-year-old woman’s home in Reddick early Sunday and viciously beat her stopped when the devout woman started praying, her family said.

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The woman, who WFTV is not identifying, remained hospitalized with a heavily bruised face and skin from her arm torn off Tuesday, the woman’s niece reported, while showing pictures taken at the hospital.

However, she was in good spirits and personally okayed her family’s conversation with WFTV – and made a few jokes in the process, they said.

“She’s beat up pretty bad, but she’s a very Christian lady,” Wanda Lasher said. “She said there came to a point where she couldn’t fight back anymore, and so she just turned it over to God and started praying.”

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The assault happened around midnight Sunday, deputies said, when a man broke …