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Woman bites off boyfriend's lip
08/11/2007 13:05 - (SA)
Seattle - A woman bit off her ex-boyfriend's lower lip as they were kissing in bed, likely disfiguring him permanently, authorities said.
The man and the woman had kissed several times on Monday night when, without provocation, she bit off his lip and spat it out, he told King County sheriff's deputies.
Laura Roberta Cutler, 44, was charged on Wednesday with second-degree domestic-violence assault and ordered held on $75 000 bail.
Deputies were called to the house in White Centre, south of Seattle, and found Thomas J Brummel, 49, on the front porch, much of his lower lip missing and his face and neck covered in blood, King County sheriff's Detective Scott Tompkins wrote in a probable cause affidavit.
Deputies reported finding the man's lip on the bedroom floor, covered with cat hair. Doctors at Highline Hospital were unable to reattach the lip and said the man will likely be permanently disfigured.
Brummel and Cutler live at the house with two other renters, all of whom are recovering from drug addiction and agreed to share a "clean and sober" home. Tompkins wrote that Cutler was drunk when detectives arrived, and "her rage was evident and uncontrolled".
Neither of the other residents witnessed the attack, Tompkins wrote.
"Had it not been for Brummel's yelling ... 'She's a devil woman!' and running up and down the stairs, none would've known the altercation had taken place," he wrote.
Cutler is scheduled to be charged on November 15 in King County Superior Court. It was not immediately known whether she had a lawyer.
Deputies had been called to the home an hour before the attack because the woman apparently was drunk and disruptive. At that time there was no indication of violence or any other reason to arrest her, sheriff's Sergeant John Urquhart said.
- AP
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