Teen attacker in custody, tongue recovered.
By Raif Karerat
The intended victim of a sexual assault in North Charleston, South Carolina, escaped after she bit off her attacker’s tongue.
North Charleston police arrested the teenage suspect, who has not been publicly identified on Oct. 16 after his mother placed a call for help because her son’s tongue was bitten off, which they immediately linked with the attempted assault., according to CBS affiliate WREG.
According to local NBC affiliate WCBD, a 33-year-old North Charleston woman told police she opened her front door at 6:30 a.m. to find a man holding a knife.
The woman said the suspect then forced himself into the house, tackled her to the floor, punched her several times, then told her to “stop fighting and I won’t hurt you.” He took her to a bedroom.
As he began to assault her, the woman kicked the suspect in the groin, according to a police report reviewed by news station WCSC, at which point the man responded, “Now you have to die.â€
When he subsequently forced his tongue into her mouth, the woman “bit his tongue as hard as she could until she heard it snap.â€
With the suspect’s tongue in her mouth, the woman jumped off the bed, ditched the bloody appendage on the kitchen floor, and scrambled into her car before driving to a nearby business to call the police.
The suspect’s tongue was located at the woman’s home, along with a knife allegedly used in the attack.