PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A violent sex offender is accused of beating and trying to strangle his girlfriend with a scarf.
Anderson Price, 47, was convicted of raping a woman in Georgia in 1993 and enticing a teenage girl shortly after arriving in North Kingstown in 2008. Released on probation recently, he began a relationship with a 26-year-old Providence woman.
Friday morning, she ended up in critical care at Rhode Island Hospital, where she told police that Price had attacked her inside their basement apartment on 11 Evergreen St., according to a police report. Her eyes were swollen, her neck was bruised, and her back was injured from being dragged down the stairs, the report said.
Price was charged in the attack, arraigned Monday and held without bail.