A Florida woman was arrested last month after deputies said she removed her pants and began punching her boyfriend, who she accused of being a member of a cult.

Karen Russell, 47, was locked in her room when her live-in boyfriend returned to their Vero Beach-area home around 4 p.m. on Jan. 24 and smelled vodka in the bathroom, TCPalm reports. Russell emerged from her room five hours later and entered her boyfriend's room while he was reading his Bible, deputies said.

Deputies said Russell took off her pants and made a vulgar remark, then began to hit the victim and scratch him with her fingernails. Russell was described as “very intoxicated,” telling deputies that her boyfriend had just joined a cult and she “didn’t know how to deal with it.”

She was arrested on a domestic battery charge.

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