The attack began shortly before dawn on Friday when the woman heard a knock at her front door. When she climbed out of bed to check on the noise, however, she found nobody there.
Moments later, she heard another knock only to again find her front yard empty. When the doorbell chimed, she opened the door once more.
This time, the yard was not empty.
Instead, a stranger stood to the side of her front door holding a 13-inch serrated knife, according to NBC News 2.
The woman screamed “No” and tried to flee inside her house but the man pushed his way into her house and locked the door behind him. He then tackled the woman and punched her several times in the face.
“Stop fighting and I won’t hurt you,” the man reportedly told the woman before slinging her over his shoulder and carrying her into the bedroom, according to ABC News 4.
The woman, however, had no intention of giving up. And when the attacker tried to pull down her shorts, she kicked him in the groin.
“Now you have to die,” he told her, according to the police report.
The assailant then forced himself on top of her and shoved his tongue in her mouth.
It was the only opening the woman would need.
Faced with a younger, stronger, armed assailant, the woman did exactly what self-defense experts suggest: she went for her attacker’s weak spot. In this instance, it was his tongue.
The woman “bit his tongue as hard as she could until she heard it snap,” according to the police report. Miller then began screaming and climbed off of her.
The woman ran out of the house, but not before spitting out her attacker’s tongue and throwing it on her kitchen floor.
Comments at WP:
* The brain disorder is just setting up his defense. Plenty of non-readers know right from wrong; he was able to tell his potential victim to cooperate and he wouldn’t hurt her. Hope he gets life without parole.
* The only “brain disorder” that this guy has is stupidity. He punched this woman in the face several times to subdue her, and threatened her life. He belongs behind bars.
* Yes!!!! Kudos to this brave woman!!!
Your honor, this dude cannot talk because the cat got his tongue!!
Served your raping behind right!!! Sudden case of loss of tongue!!!
* Wow, wow and wow. What she did was amazing. That survival instinct is something else. I will say she should never have opened the door after the first no-show. I probably would not have opened the door at all, given that it was an odd hour for anyone to be knocking on the door. That said, she is a warrior and this guy will have a speech-impediment and a long jail sentence.
* But he looks like such a nice young man… just a gentle giant.
* But but he was such a nice kid and was going to go to Community College.
* Brilliant!! Disable your attacker, make him easily identifiable, and permanently scar him for life…plus, now he can’t even whine about how unfair his life is that he has to go out and rape people.
* “He has a brain disorder that causes him to act on impulse and do things… he’s only reading at a second grade level.”
When these animals are out raping and killing those intelligence tests show that it’s not their fault.
Yet when they want to go to college those same intelligence tests are culturally biased and invalid.
* This is surely the feel-good story of the day. This tongue-less animal will now have to gesticulate like a monkey to communicate.
* 100% responsible for his actions. Anyone who says otherwise is living in a dream world. This thing needs to be exterminated before it gets released again.
* Wow. I’m speechless. But then so is he.
* Sounds like his disabilities are so severe, that to protect the public, he needs to be institutionalized for life.
