(Sep. 02, 2011, London (CNN) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the role of CNN in drawing attention to the plight of a Libyan nanny who says she suffered horrible injuries at the Gadhafi family's hands. Shweyga Mullah's story has touched the hearts of many people around the world.
Donations to a fundraising page set up by Anti-Slavery International, in conjunction with CNN, to collect money for her treatment and care have already topped $12,000.
"I think CNN have done a very good job to raise the profile of this tragic case and I think what matters is that this person gets the medical attention that they need," Cameron told CNN's senior International correspondent Matthew Chance.
"Where that takes place is a second issue, but the most important thing is getting medical assistance.
"There are charities, I know, that actually fly around the world and do incredible reconstructive surgery and other things to help people like the case that you raised and maybe there's a chance this could happen in this case."
Mullah told CNN Aline Gadhafi, the wife of Gadhafi's son Hannibal, poured boiling water on her after losing her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.
The attack has left her face a grotesque mosaic of red wounds and scabs. Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars -- some old, some still red, raw and weeping.
As Mullah spoke to CNN in a Tripoli hospital earlier this week, clear liquid oozed from an open wound on her head.
"She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this," Mullah said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.
Mullah is now being treated at a Tripoli hospital after a guard secretly brought her in.
The minister of health with the rebel government, Dr. Naji Barakat, is due to visit Mullah later Thursday, he told CNN's Dan Rivers in Tripoli.
Source: CNN
Donations to a fundraising page set up by Anti-Slavery International, in conjunction with CNN, to collect money for her treatment and care have already topped $12,000.
"I think CNN have done a very good job to raise the profile of this tragic case and I think what matters is that this person gets the medical attention that they need," Cameron told CNN's senior International correspondent Matthew Chance.
"Where that takes place is a second issue, but the most important thing is getting medical assistance.
"There are charities, I know, that actually fly around the world and do incredible reconstructive surgery and other things to help people like the case that you raised and maybe there's a chance this could happen in this case."
Mullah told CNN Aline Gadhafi, the wife of Gadhafi's son Hannibal, poured boiling water on her after losing her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.
The attack has left her face a grotesque mosaic of red wounds and scabs. Her chest, torso and legs are all mottled with scars -- some old, some still red, raw and weeping.
As Mullah spoke to CNN in a Tripoli hospital earlier this week, clear liquid oozed from an open wound on her head.
"She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this," Mullah said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.
Mullah is now being treated at a Tripoli hospital after a guard secretly brought her in.
The minister of health with the rebel government, Dr. Naji Barakat, is due to visit Mullah later Thursday, he told CNN's Dan Rivers in Tripoli.
Source: CNN
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