NP - Woman May Have Bitten Husband to Death?

[David Morris]

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1597822

MODESTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California woman who allegedly flew into a rage
and bit her husband repeatedly after he refused to have sex with her is being
held on charges that police say may eventually include murder. 

Modesto police said that Kelli Pratt, 45, attacked her 65-year-old husband
Arthur on Oct. 7, holding him down and biting him some 20 times after a dispute
over sex. 

"Most of the bites were confined to his arm and his abdomen and a few were very
deep with major tissue damage," Sgt. Al Carter of the Modesto police told a
television news reporter Thursday. 

The Modesto Bee newspaper reported that Arthur Pratt, whose skin was covered
with more than 20 deep tooth marks, died Sunday at a local hospital and that
the local forensic pathologist believes the bites are the likely cause of
death. 

"He (the husband) was able to dial 911 (emergency) that night," Carter told the
newspaper. "We have a tape recording of him screaming while she was biting him.
When officers arrived, he was screaming that he'd been assaulted. She fought
with the officers and tried to bite them, too." 



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