Please click here to save Blake: www.indiegogo.com Three masked men allegedly bound a woman and carved words into her skin, police in Lincoln, Nebraska, said Monday. The incident has been classified as a hate crime because a derogatory term for lesbians was painted inside the home, said Officer Katie Flood, a spokeswoman for the Lincoln Police Department. Someone had carved words into the woman's body, police said, but investigators declined to elaborate. In addition, someone poured gasoline around the house and lit it, but the fire did little damage, police said. After the attack, the woman made her way to the home of a neighbor, Linda Rappl, who said she feared bad news about her husband, who is in hospice, when she heard someone knocking on her door before dawn Sunday. What she saw instead was her 33-year-old neighbor, she said, naked and bleeding. "I was in shock," Rappl said. "She was naked, her hands were tied with zip ties. All I could see was a cut across her forehead and blood running down." The woman was sobbing. Rappl, 68, brought her neighbor inside and wrapped her in a blanket before calling 911. "She had cuts on her arms and legs but I didn't want to humiliate her and stare," she said. It looked like she had endured torture, Rappl said. "Some of the blood that was on her -- that had run down her legs -- was dried so I don't know how long it was before she got away." When word got out about the attack -- and the words carved into the woman's skin and painted ...