A White Center woman allegedly bit off the bottom lip of a man she had been kissing.

Laura Cutler, 44, later was charged in King County Superior Court with second-degree domestic-violence assault.

She is being held in the King County Jail.

According to King County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart, Cutler and the 49-year-old man, who she once had dated, were sitting on her bed kissing when she allegedly bit off most of his bottom lip and spit it out.

The man's lip was found after the incident, but doctors at Highline Medical Center in Burien were unable to reattach it -leaving him permanently disfigured.

Urquhart said deputies were called to the White Center house, where the man and woman have lived with two other roommates, at about 11:30 p.m.

The home in the 10400 block of 19th Avenue Southwest in White Center is an unofficial "clean and sober" residence for recovering addicts, Urquhart said.

When deputies arrived, the victim was sitting on the front steps. He told them, "The b***h bit my lip off!"

Deputies then noticed most of his lower lip was missing.

Urquhart said an investigation revealed the man and his assailant were now "just friends," but had ended up kissing when the attacked occurred.

According to the victim, they kissed several times, when suddenly, without provocation or warning, she bit off his lip and then "spit it out."

Cutler was found in the house and taken into custody after allegedly trying to assault one of the arresting deputies with a pillow. BShe reportedly appeared to have been drinking.