A 38-year-old Bluffton man is accused of severely beating his exhausted girlfriend because she wasn't leaving his home quickly enough after a nightabusing alcohol and crack cocaine, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's report.

His motivation for rousing her at 8:30 a.m. Friday? Another girlfriend was coming over, according to the report Tuesday.

Steven S. Gantt, of Simmons Cay Apartments, was charged with high-and-aggravated criminal domestic violence after he ripped the clothes off his 46-year-old girlfriend, punched her in the mouth and beat and kicked her into unconsciousness, the report said.

The woman awoke to find Gantt pulling her out of the apartment. She then walked home to her apartment in the same complex and called police.

The bruised and *lo**ied victim lost a front tooth and was taken to Hilton Head Hospital.

Gantt was taken to the county jail and later released on a $10,000 bond Sunday.