By Bahk Eun-ji

A female high school student in Ansung, Gyeonggi Province, kicked a sex attacker in the testicles, police said Tuesday.

According to police, the man, 41, threatened the student with a deadly weapon in a field in at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday. He then touched her clothing, but she bit his hand holding the weapon and kicked him in the groin.

She fled and told police, "A strange man is following me."

Police arrested the man at his house in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, at 6 p.m. the same day.

Police said the student was on her way home after studying in a reading room.

The man denied attacking the girl, telling police, ""I just talked to her because she was wandering at that time."

Police are still investigating.