A Detroit man is
recovering after a woman he was kissing bit off his tongue, according to the
Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office.
Youlette Wedgeworth,
52, and the man were engaged in a consensual kiss on January 28 when the incident
occurred, police and prosecutors allege. She had asked him to not put his
tongue in her mouth. When he did anyway, she bit it off, Prosecutor Eric J.
Smith told CNN affiliate WXYZ.
CNN has attempted to
reach Wedgeworth for comment.
Police responded to
the incident and found the man bleeding from his mouth and missing about 1 inch
of his tongue, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Smith in a statement said
“I believe this is the first case of this nature in my 27 years in the
prosecutor’s office,”.
Police were able to
recover the man’s tongue in his apartment bedroom. He was transported to an
area hospital and Wedgeworth was taken into custody without further incident,
the prosecutors office said.
There was no immediate
word of the man’s condition.
Wedgeworth was charged
with aggravated assault, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a
$1,000 fine.
A pre-trial conference
is scheduled for February 19.
