A WOMAN yesterday testified that a man brutally beat her before holding a knife to her throat during a domestic dispute earlier this year.

Neikei Anderson, 28, was accused of harming a woman and damaging an iPhone 11 cellphone he had bought her.

He denied the allegations when he first appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney and the matter was adjourned to trial.

When his accuser testified yesterday, she told the court that on January 16 she was sitting at a table in her home with Anderson, who had helped her bring some bags inside her house. She said that evening another male friend knocked on her door and asked for her. She claimed that when the accused asked her who it was, she did not answer at first because he was “very aggressive” and she was afraid. She said when she did respond, she told the accused that he knew who it was.

“He kept on asking me while choking, punching and slapping me,” she said.

“He choked me at least four times. I passed out, but every time I came to, I was urinating (on) myself. It wasn’t a period where he stopped hitting and stomping me.”

The woman claimed Anderson also took a curtain rod and beat her on her thighs and the side of her face. She said during the attack, her nose was broken, and her left eardrum was ruptured. She also said he held a knife to her throat and used it to stab holes in her mattress.

“While he had the knife to my throat, he asked me if I wanted my daughter to grow up without a mother. It didn’t stop, it just kept going from one thing to the next. I just closed my eyes and prayed (because) I thought that was it. I kept asking him to stop (and) I yelled for help because I didn’t know what else to do.”

The complainant said Anderson also took her cellphone and all of the cash that was in her wallet before he left. She claimed that sometime later, she found out she was two months pregnant, but had suffered a miscarriage.

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