The assault stopped after the woman started bleeding from a cut to her forehead and Van Tassel tried to attend to the wound. He said “we’ll fix this” by saying that three people “jumped” her, the woman testified.

Then Van Tassel laid down on the couch and went to sleep and she ran out of the house.

“I was just so grateful when he passed out,” she said.

She said she ran several blocks to a family member’s house barefoot and without her glasses. Someone there called 911.

Police found Van Tassel sleeping at her home and arrested him without incident, police said.

He is being held at Mercer County Jail on $50,000 bond and a parole detainer.

The woman was treated at the hospital of Sharon Regional Health System for a broken nose and eye socket, a concussion and bruises. She said her eyes were swollen shut and she had to get four stitches above her right eye.

The Herald does not identify victims of sexual assault.