Police who responded to a report of an injured woman on a porch in the 800 block of Morse Street early Wednesday found an unconscious, battered victim.

Officers asked the woman who called in the report at about 1:15 a.m. what had happened. She said the victim, her niece, had been drinking all day and was intoxicated.

After visiting a female friend, the woman said, the victim came home with a black eye, swollen jaw and other injuries.

The victim was taken to a hospital emergency room, and an officer went there to question her. She was obviously intoxicated, according to a police report.

She said she was visiting her friend and a man there wanted her to go purchase crack cocaine. She refused, she said, and he began beating her.

The officer found the man at the friend’s house. The man insisted at first that he did not beat the victim and said that blood on his shirt came from “cutting a turkey.”

The man finally admitted beating the victim, according to the police report.

He said he did it because she wanted to have sex with him and he was fighting her off, the report states.

The officer took the bloody shirt for evidence. An investigation is continuing.

Other reports

3000 block of South Interstate 35E — Hospital employees reported at about 1:50 a.m. Tuesday that a patient left the emergency room with five telemetry cords still attached to her body.

The woman came in complaining of symptoms of sickle-cell anemia. She was connected to monitors, and medicines were administered.

She learned that she was going to be admitted to the hospital, according to a police report.

She said she usually was treated in the emergency room and released, and insisted that she did not want to be admitted to the hospital.

When she learned that she would be transferred to a room, she said she needed to talk to her boyfriend who was in the lobby.

She never returned. The cords she took with her were valued at $1,000, according to the report.

2000 block of Teasley Lane — Officers responded to a call about a woman being beaten, according to a police report released Wednesday. They found her upset and crying, with obvious injuries.

She said that she and her husband were about to be evicted from their apartment because they could not pay their rent. She left the apartment to try to find help from a charitable agency.

When she returned, her husband was angry that she had taken so long, and he began shoving her around a room. His temper escalated, she said, and he began beating her and threatening to kill her. She finally broke free and ran downstairs to call 911 from a neighbor’s apartment.

He left while she was gone.

Roundup

From 7 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday:

• Denton police handled 242 service and officer-initiated calls, including five reports of fraud, three cases of possession of drug paraphernalia, two cases of possession of a controlled substance, three assaults, three reports of criminal mischief, one runaway, eight vehicle burglaries, five home burglaries, eight thefts, one suicide attempt, one sexual assault report, one report of embezzlement, three aggravated assaults, two reports of harassment, one case of possession of a controlled substance and one overdose.

• Denton County sheriff’s deputies handled one forgery and one theft. Twenty-eight people were booked into county jail.

• Denton firefighters responded to 19 medical calls, three traffic accidents, one person in distress, four smoke investigations, three requests to assist an invalid, one trash fire and two electrical malfunctions.

DONNA FIELDER can be reached at 940-566-6885. Her e-mail address is dfielder@dentonrc.com .

Denton County Crime Stoppers will pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest in these or other crimes. Callers will remain anonymous. Call 1-800-388-TIPS (8477). Reach the Denton police narcotics tip line at 940-565-5801.