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Police: Greensburg Man Attacks Daughter With Garden Gnome

POSTED: 5:07 pm EST February 21, 2008
UPDATED: 6:53 pm EST February 21, 2008

A Greensburg man accused of assaulting his stepdaughter with a garden gnome early Wednesday was arrested, police said.

The teenage girl was hurt when Charles Morrison, 31, threw the gnome through a glass window, cutting her above her eye, police said.

Police said Morrison, of Mt. Pleasant Street, came home drunk at about 4 a.m., cutting the telephone lines, punching holes in the wall and pushing his stepdaughter.

The girl claims she managed to push him out the back porch door, police said.

A neighbor told police she saw Morrison throw the garden gnome through the window.

Morrison was jailed on $25,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and harassment.


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