MACON, Ga. — A man has been arrested in Georgia after a woman told sheriff's deputies she hit her boyfriend with a sword after she found him molesting her 5-year-old daughter.
The Twiggs County Sheriff's Office said officers were called about midnight March 14 about an unwanted person at a home.
News outlets reported the woman said she cut the man as he tried to leave the home.
Twenty-five-year-old John Lawarren Williams of Twiggs County turned himself in to Sheriff Darren Mitchum about 6 a.m. Friday. Williams was treated for a minor cut and has been charged with aggravated child molestation and two counts of cruelty to children.
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It was not known if he has an attorney.
The woman and child were taken to a Macon hospital to be checked.