OAKLAND — The ordeal for a Bay Area woman started when she started talking to a man on Facebook Dating and agreed to meet him at the Coliseum BART station, according to court records.

It ended days later, at the Lake Merritt BART station, when police stopped the woman and her male companion and told her to remove her sunglasses and ski mask. When she did, they saw her horrifying injuries — broken bones in her face, both eyes bruised and swollen shut, and a missing tooth, according to police and the woman’s own testimony.

“I mouthed to the officer to help me,” the woman recalled from a witness stand at a July preliminary hearing.

Her alleged attacker, identified by police as 30-year-old Devin Budd of East Palo Alto, had spent the last several weeks barely escaping serious legal consequen

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