Lying in a hospital bed, recovering from one surgery and awaiting another, a 22-year-old victim of a brutal attack filled out paperwork seeking a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend.

In that application, she described the attack. “I was in extreme pain, and when I tried to get up I couldn’t stand,” the Lawrence woman wrote in the application for a protection from abuse order filed in Douglas County District Court.

The woman’s narrative of an Oct. 9 attack led a judge to order Matthew Jaeger, 22, a Kansas University senior from suburban Chicago, to have no contact with the woman. Jaeger, who is being held in the Douglas County Jail, faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery and aggravated burglary in connection with the attack. He also is charged with making criminal threats against another man. Prosecutors have refused to provide details about the criminal threat charges.

On Friday, Jaeger’s attorney, Carl Cornwell, will seek a reduction in his client’s $850,000 bond.

The case centers on what prosecutors have called “a horrific attack” on Jaeger’s ex-girlfriend during the early-morning hours of Oct. 9.

Lawrence police have declined to release any information about the incident, but the victim described the attack in detail in her application for the restraining order.

According to that document, the victim and Jaeger were involved in a one-year relationship that ended in May 2007. During at least part of that time, the two lived together.

She offered this description of what happened Oct. 9:

She said Jaeger broke out a window of her second-floor apartment about 1 a.m. Once inside, she said, Jaeger punched her in the head, knocking her out. She awoke, covered in blood with injuries to her vaginal area.

She said she was forced into a car that Jaeger’s friend was driving, and at that point she thought her life was in danger.

“I started screaming as loud as I could in the hopes that someone would save me,” she wrote in the application.

She said Jaeger pushed her into the backseat of his car, and he got in with her. A friend of his was driving.

“I begged the driver to take me to the hospital, but he ignored me,” she wrote.

Police eventually pulled the vehicle over, and the woman was taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she remained on Tuesday. She has had at least two surgeries in the past week.

During his first court appearance, Jaeger told the judge: “I think a lot of this could just be a big misunderstanding.”

And his father, Jerry Jaeger, said the case against his son was an exaggeration.

“It’s almost mind-boggling to me,” Jerry Jaeger said in a telephone conversation from his Chicago real estate office. He said he could not elaborate.

He did tell reporters in Chicago that his son found the victim in the condition she was in – after she had been with another man. Jerry Jaeger said his son was taking her to the hospital when police pulled him over.

Jerry Jaeger referred all further questions to his son’s attorney, who has not returned repeated calls.