Scarry and an article on torture

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/01/BAVH16R1H0.DTL&tsp=1

Four people are indicted for torturing and abusing a 16 year old boy. The article explains how this boy was tortured. Here are some quotes from the article to explain:

"vitriol, corrosive acid, flammable substance and caustic chemical with the intent to injure the flesh and disfigure the body of the said victim."

He also reported that he had once been cut with a knife and "strangled with a belt until he lost consciousness,"

After reading the some of Elaine Scarry, it is interesting to note how the article is somewhat trying to convey the pain the tortured boy has felt. Scarry outlines the unsharability of pain in the introduction and how the story-teller objectifies the characteristics of pain, "the image of the weapon only enables us to see the attributes of pain" - the weapons in this article being the acid and the belt. A reader can picture what the weapon can potentially do but the descriptions of how the boy is tortured does not express the physical pain.