A 28-year-old man was stabbed in the back this morning, and his 41-year-old girlfriend is now behind bars.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies were dispatched about 4:30 a.m. to an apartment in the 2300 block of Raintree Court in Center Point on a stabbing. When they arrived on the scene, said Chief Deputy Randy Christian, they found the victim with a stab wound to his upper back.

The victim, whose name hasn't been release, told deputies the couple was arguing because his girlfriend though he had been seeing other women, and she asked him to leave. While he was gathering his clothes, Christian said, she stabbed him in the back with a kitchen knife.

The victim was treated and released from the hospital. The girlfriend, Nekita Ignacia Averette, is charged with second-degree assault. She remains in the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $5,000.