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Man met woman for sex, then stomped her head in busy street: report

George Bingham, 43, was arrested after allegedly stomping on a woman's head at the intersection of Porter Road and Smith-Enke Road. [PCSO/graphic]

Police arrested the man believed to have stomped a woman’s head in the middle of a major Maricopa intersection six weeks ago. 

A woman who called for medical help April 3 told dispatchers she was the victim in a domestic violence incident earlier that morning, according to a police narrative released yesterday. 

The woman said she had met her “intimate partner,” 43-year-old George Bingham, for sex but they got drunk and somehow ended up in a car at the corner of Porter and Smith-Enke Roads. 

Traffic cameras at the corner of the intersection appeared to record an assault at 2 a.m. 

According to officers who viewed the footage, the couple had a verbal argument outside Bingham’s car before Bingham “punched or slapped the victim in the face.”  

The footage showed the woman ripping off Bingham’s shirt and throwing a drink at him. They both got into the vehicle, and she threw something else at him. The woman then could be seen exiting the car before Bingham “caught up with her and hit her in the face several times,” according to the police document.  

Her pants then fell, acting like a hobble as she tumbled face-down onto the asphalt. She tried to cover her head with her arms as Bingham “began punching” and “stomped on” her head. When she turned face-up, Bingham reportedly kicked her in the face. 

The victim managed to run away when Bingham allegedly stopped beating her to put his shoe, which fell off while he was punching her, back on. Bingham fled in his car, the authorities said. 

Bingham was eventually arrested in Mesa and transported to the Pinal County jail on Tuesday, 40 days after the alleged attack. He’s charged with aggravated assault and endangerment, both stemming from domestic violence. 

He faces two years in prison. 

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