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California
court is told a woman carried out a horrific attack on her 60-year-old
estranged husband after tying him to a bed. She yelled "You deserve it" before severing her
estranged husband's penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife.
Catherine Kieu, 50, is accused of drugging the 60-year-old man's tofu dinner
with sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack. She allegedly
threw the penis into a waste disposal unit.
Audio of the July 11, 2011, incident was captured by a voice-activated
recorder hidden in the bedroom, according to prosecutor John Christl. The
sound of the waste disposal unit being turned on can be heard, he said.
The man survived the attack but surgeons were unable to reattach his penis. "All
of a sudden I felt a very sharp pain," he said on the first day of the
trial on Wednesday. "She murdered me that night." "I will never have a sex life again. My mental state is improving, but
it may never be what it was before," he added.
The prosecution claims Ms Kieu was motivated by jealousy, and angry about her
husband's plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend. Her defence team told jurors that her traumatic childhood in war-torn Vietnam caused
mental illness that rules out a mayhem or torture conviction.
They also claimed
that her husband subjected her to sexual and verbal abuse, and filed for
divorce while they continued to live together in his Garden Grove home. The trial is expected to last two weeks.
1 comment:
There's no excuse 4 dat d woman could have left???????dat is barbaric!!!!!
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