SEATTLE — A woman bit off her ex-boyfriend’s lower lip as they were kissing in bed and has been jailed for investigation of domestic violence, King County sheriff’s deputies said.
Deputies were called to a house in White Center, an unincorporated suburb south of the city, about 11:30 p.m. Monday and found a 49-year-old man bleeding on the porch, sheriff’s Sgt. John Urquhart said.
“There was quite a bit of blood,” Urquhart said. “He could talk, but just barely.”
The man said he and the woman kissed several times when, without provocation, she bit off his lip and spat it out, deputies said. They 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 deputies said the man will likely be permanently disfigured.
A 44-year-old woman in the house cursed and attacked one of the deputies with a pillow before being arrested. Bail was set Tuesday at $25,000. As of early Wednesday It was unclear whether she had a lawyer.
Deputies said the two another man and woman who are recovering from drug addiction rent the house, all four agreeing to share a “clean and sober” home.
However, deputies had been called to the home an hour before the attack because the woman who later was arrested apparently was drunk and disruptive. At that time there was no indication of violence nor any other reason to arrest her, Urquhart said.
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