Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

STUART — A man accused of hitting his girlfriend with a sex toy and punching her after she criticized him was arrested, a report states.

Eric Pritsch, 42, was arrested on a battery charge after the incident, which was reported at 3:19 a.m. on Feb. 7 to a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy.

The 58-year-old woman identified as the victim flagged down a deputy and asked him to call the police, saying she’d been beat up. The deputy told her he was the police and asked what happened.

She said her live-in boyfriend -- Pritsch -- “punched her in the face because, as they were having sex, she told him, ‘You’re not a man, you’re a mouse,’ in reference to his apparent inability to perform,” the report states.

The woman, who smelled of booze, said he struck her in the back with a sex toy and a cord, but the investigator saw no marks. She had swelling to the left side of her face or jaw.

Meanwhile, Pritsch said he was extremely drunk, but denied striking the victim.

“We did not locate the (sex toy) allegedly used by Pritsch to strike (the victim),” the report states.

Pritsch, of the 800 block of Southeast Highland Road in Stuart, was arrested and taken to jail.