Ga. man charged with assault when online romance sours
By The Associated Press
Posted 7:52AM on Wednesday, October 22, 2014
LONDON, Ky. (AP) A Georgia man charged with assaulting a woman in eastern Kentucky has told police he thought she didn't match the description she had given on the Internet. <br />
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Laurel County Sheriff's spokesman Gilbert Acciardo Jr. says 33-year-old Cornelius Jefferson of Monroe, Georgia moved to Laurel County to be with the woman, whom he had met online. <br />
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Acciardo says the documentation for the assault charge didn't say how the woman described herself online or what Jefferson thought she should be. <br />
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Acciardo says Jefferson choked the woman, threw food on her and then left with his suitcases. The woman's identity was not released. <br />
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A deputy arrested Jefferson about seven miles north of London at about 4:20 a.m. Tuesday. <br />
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Jail records did not list an attorney for Jefferson.