Deputies: Hot plate, sword used in assault

A 23-year-old Grant County man cut his 16-year-old girlfriend with a sword and burned her hand on an electric hot plate Monday morning in a two-hour assault that he said was ordered by God, authorities reported.

Grant County sheriff’s deputies arrested Cesar Sanchez Sanchez at the Royal Duke Trailer Court in George, Wash., after neighbors reported the incident. The girl, who has a 2-month-old daughter with Sanchez, was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of burns and cuts.

The couple’s daughter was with grandparents at the time of the alleged assault.

Deputies said the attack included several blows from a sword, and then the suspect pressed her hand onto a hot plate with his foot.

Sanchez had lived with the girl for two years, and recently was released from a mental health treatment center, according to the sheriff’s office.

He was booked on suspicion of first-degree domestic assault, first-degree domestic kidnapping and felony harassment.