US Woman Charged with Cutting off Husband's Penis

LOS ANGELES - A 48-year-old Californian woman was charged Wednesday with allegedly drugging her estranged husband’s dinner then tying him to a bed and cutting off his penis.

Catherine Kieu Becker was charged with torture, bodily injury with a knife and aggravated mayhem — a felony that involves depriving a victim of “a limb, organ, or member of his or her body.” If convicted on all charges she faces life in jail, said the Orange County District Attorney’s office after the alleged attack Monday in Garden Grove, southeast of Los Angeles.

In an incident recalling the infamous 1993 case of John Wayne Bobbitt — who had his penis reattached after a similar event — she hacked off her husband’s manhood on Monday, police said. She rang 911 after the attack, telling officers that her husband “deserved it,” according to police.

“Officers arrived and located a male victim tied to the bed and bleeding from his groin area,” said a spokesman Tuesday, adding that she “had used an unknown type poison and/or drug in the male’s food to make him sleepy.

“She tied him to the bed and as he woke the female cut off his penis with a knife. The female tossed the penis in the garbage disposal and turned the disposal to the ’On’ position.” The 51-year-old man, whose named was not released, underwent emergency surgery and was listed in serious condition, the police said.

In 1993 Bobbitt had his penis cut off by his wife Lorena, who drove away and threw away the member from a moving car. It was recovered and sewn back on, and Bobbitt subsequently became a porn movie actor on the back of his misfortune.