A man has been arrested in Georgia after a woman told sheriff’s deputies she hit her boyfriend with a sword after she found him molesting her 5-year-old daughter, officials say.

The Twiggs County Sheriff’s Office said officers were called about midnight March 14 about an unwanted person at a home.

According to an incident report, the woman walked in on her daughter being molested and she “cut him with a large metal sword.”

The child had apparently been touched and/or fondled by the mom’s boyfriend. It was also reported that the child was “burned with a cigarette on her private area.”

The 5-year-old was sent to a Macon hospital with her mother to be checked.

Twenty-five-year-old John Lawarren Williams of Twiggs County turned himself into Sheriff Darren Mitchum about 6 a.m. Friday.

Williams was treated for a minor cut and has been charged with aggravated child molestation and two counts of cruelty to children.

It was not known if he has an attorney.

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