An 88-year-old Seattle woman is speaking out for the first time after a brutal attack outside her Rainier Beach home left her with broken bones and her finger bitten off .

Emma Cotton said she’s leaning on her faith and family two months after the Oct. 13 assault that left her fighting for her life on her own porch.

“Nobody heard me screaming and hollering or anything. But I’m here today. So God heard me,” Cotton told KIRO 7.

Cotton said the attack happened suddenly as she stepped onto her porch.

“I turned around, there was this guy. And he started punching me in the face,” she recalled.

Cotton says the suspect, who was caught on surveillance video in her Rainier Beach neighborhood , wanted her rings — including her wedding ring.

“He could have ‘em. My life was more important t

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