A woman bit off her former 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 US$75,000 bail.
Deputies were called to the house in White Center, south of Seattle, and found Thomas 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 would 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.
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, John Urquhart of the sheriff's office said.
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