"Wife slashes off Husband's Genitals" was one of the headlines in yesterday's BB. A Filipino wife apparently severed her husband's private parts because she believed he was having exta marital affairs. The husband fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on whose point of view) survived. In the USA, the famous Bobbitt case with similar facts demonstrates clearly that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
11 years ago, we had our own local Bobbitt case involving a Filipino couple working here although with more tragic consequences. A quarrel with her boyfriend left the lady full of grief and anger as the boyfriend wanted to leave her. When the man went to sleep, the lady concerned still smoldering in anger took a piece of wood and began hitting the man on the head. She then in a feat of superhuman strength threw a television set on to the poor guy. Not satisfied with these assaults, she then took a knife and cut off the boyfriend's genitals. Ouch! She then threw the "anu" outside the house as she ran off. The man later died from his injuries. The lady is still serving mandatory life imprisonment in Jerudong Prison for manslaughter. Incidentally, she is the last person to be sentenced to such punishment for such offence. The sentence for manslaughter (or more correctly, culpable homicide not amounting to murder) is now maximum life in prison instead of mandatory life.
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