DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – A Decatur man is charged with sexually assaulting a woman twice.
Police say Blake Lunardi, 23, talked with the woman in a house early Sunday morning before becoming angry and punching her in the face. They say he then held a kitchen knife near her torso and demanded that she go to the bathroom.
Officers say he punched pictures on the wall while following the woman to the bathroom, where he threw her to the ground and ripped off her clothes. A sworn statement from police says he told her he would “slit her throat” and take his own life if she didn’t go to the bedroom.
The statement says the sexual assault happened in the bedroom and again in the front room. Police say Lunardi at one point threw a decorative block at the woman’s head, causing it to start bleeding, and later broke her smartphone by throwing it against a wall.
Police say the victim managed to run to a neighbor’s house to call law enforcement.
Lunardi is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated unlawful restraint, domestic battery, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and criminal damage to property. His bond is set at $200,000 in Macon County.
