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DECATUR — Police said a 30-year-old Decatur woman who did not want her 43-year-old boyfriend to leave her repeatedly grabbed his genitals before stabbing him in the scrotum with a knife.

A sworn statement from Decatur Police said Officer Tim Wittmer saw and photographed the man’s wound: “... A five to six inch in length, half-an-inch deep laceration to the right side of his scrotum,” Wittmer added in the statement.

Wittmer said the man was attacked on June 24 and police originally interviewed him at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Police found and arrested the woman Sunday morning and she was booked on a preliminary charge of aggravated domestic battery. Preliminary charges are subject to review by the state attorney’s office.

Wittmer said the man told him the trouble started after his girlfriend had been out all day and this got him upset to the point where he wanted to break up with her. The woman refused to accept the breakup and grabbed the man in a “bear hug” which he broke free from, only to have her grab his genitals and begin to “pull and tug at these body parts to the point that it was painful.”