LaPorte Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault by a woman found injured in the area of Stanley Court and Philadelphia Street on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.
Police said that at about 4:11 a.m., they responded to a report of a woman screaming for help. They found the 27-year-old woman standing at the intersection of Philadelphia Street and East Jefferson Avenue “covered in blood, her face was very swollen and she sustained several facial lacerations.”
The woman said she had been sexually assaulted and battered by a local man she knows. She told police she had been out with him earlier that same morning.
She was taken to IU Health LaPorte Hospital.