Mayfield man charged with assault after victim taken to emergency room

A Mayfield man faces assault charges after a woman was hospitalized on Christmas Eve morning.

Mayfield Police officers were called to the Jackson Purchase Medical Center emergency room on Sunday for various bruising, scrapes and burns on a woman who was being treated for injuries they said were consistent with an assault.

The suspect, 48-year-old Fred Jackson, was taken into custody, and charged with assault and violation of conditions of release.

He was taken to to the Fulton County Jail.