Cut off her husbands penis

In a series of highly publicized trials, she was charged with malicious wounding but acquitted and spent five weeks at a psychiatric hospital. He was acquitted of marital sexual assault in a separate trial. Gallo will appear in an Amazon docuseries discussing the impact of her story. She discussed why she chose to get involved.

The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. This article was published more than 1 year ago. Some information in it may no longer be current. The four-part docuseries re-investigates the events of , when Lorena Bobbitt now Lorena Gallo, shown sliced off her husband's penis after years of abuse. One night in , in Manassas, Va. In , daytime TV was soaring in the ratings, as lurid story after lurid story was thrashed out by braying hosts and their studio audience. And the Bobbitt case was the most lurid of them all.

Just before 4 a. Her husband, James, reported that his wife had tied him up, pulled out a knife removed his penis, according to the incident report. Frabutt, who is charged with kidnapping and malicious castration, made her first court appearance Wednesday with her head down and tears in her eyes.

T he emergency service men, one nurse recalls, all sat with their legs crossed protectively. One of the emergency men found it, another picked it up and they put it on ice in a hotdog bag, because life has greater temerity than any fiction writer and drove it and the mutilated man to the hospital. If, in , you were of any age at all, anywhere at all — for it was the severed penis heard around the world — you will remember at least these bare facts. What did John Wayne Bobbitt do to make his wife of four years, do something like that?