Abused woman gets second face transplant

Tarleton's face was disfigured when her ex husband beat her with a baseball bat and doused her body with lye. Photo: AP/Charles Krupa

For the second time in a decade, a New Hampshire woman has a new face.

Carmen Blandin Tarleton, whose face was disfigured in an attack by her ex-husband, became the first American and only the second person globally to undergo the procedure after her first transplant began to fail six years after the operation. The transplant from an anonymous donor took place at Boston's Brigham and Women’s Hospital last month.