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A Jersey City man and his girlfriend were charged yesterday with assaulting a woman, police say.

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JERSEY CITY - A 25-year-old Jersey City man punched a woman then told her to fight his current girlfriend, according to police reports.

Mark Riddick, of Fulton Avenue, turned himself in at the South District last night and was charged with aggravated assault, police said. An arrest warrant has been issued for the 26-year-old girlfriend who remains at-large.

Shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday, police were called to Fulton and Ocean avenues on a report of a woman stabbed.

When police arrived, they met the 25-year-old victim who was "bleeding profusely from the left side of her face," having sustained "a large laceration from the top of her forehead (left-side) down to the left eyelid," police said.

The woman told cops that she was leaving a Fulton Avenue residence with her two children when Riddick's current girlfriend attacked her, reports said.

But when the girlfriend pounced on the victim, the victim's 10-year-old daughter tried to keep the girlfriend off her mommy, reports said.

At that point, Riddick reared back and punched the 25-year-old victim in the face with a closed fist and then announced to the two adult women, "Aight, now y'all can fight," reports said.

The girlfriend knocked the woman to the ground, reports said. The victim told cops she felt she was being struck by an object and blood was pouring into her eyes. The victim said at one point, the girlfriend was biting the ring finger on her right hand, reports said.

When someone said the cops were coming, both Riddick and the girlfriend fled, according to reports.

An emergency room doctor at Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health told police the victim needed "numerous stitches" to close her wound, reports said.

The girlfriend faces a slew of charges, including aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon, and criminal attempted murder, according to police reports.

The reports do not disclose the relationship between Riddick and the victim.

Editor's note: This story was edited at 5:40 p.m. to reflect updated information.