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You Know the Lorena Bobbitt Story. But Not All of It.
Slimes ^ | Jan. 30, 2019 | By Amy Chozick

Posted on 01/31/2019 12:57:07 PM PST by Paladin2

MANASSAS, Va. — Lorena is very matter-of-fact about the whole thing. There, she said as she drove us around in her Kia on a recent afternoon, was the hospital where surgeons reattached John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis after she cut it off with a kitchen knife as he slept on the night of June 23, 1993.

Fifteen minutes away, near Maplewood Drive, was the gravel-strewn field where she disposed of the detached penis out the driver’s side window. So, why did she throw it away? I asked. “I tried to drive the car, obviously, but I had this thing in my hand so I couldn’t drive so I got rid of it.” Obviously.

Further down the road is the nail salon where she worked and fled to that night. “I’m not a vindictive person because I told them where it was,” Lorena Gallo, as she is now known, said. By “them” she means the police who, sometime after 4:30 a.m., clutched their loins and went digging through the overgrown roadside grass for the missing member. They found it, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven and rushed it to the hospital where in a nine-and-a-half-hour feat of urological and plastic surgery it was reattached and restored to (almost) full function.

These are the details everyone knows and the ones Lorena recites with the stoicism of the waiter at the Tortino Mare Italian restaurant who hours earlier had relayed the specials for us. It’s the actual story, she said — the one about a young immigrant who endured years of domestic violence, was raped by her husband that night, had nowhere to go and finally snapped — that she wanted to talk to me about.

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: amychozick; aoclorenaclone; bobit; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; hillaryclinton; hitlery; lorena; popculture
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To: Paladin2

I believe rape and 2+ counts of conviction of child molestation should qualify for the death penalty.

The court cases would go into the intricacies of whether a wife was falsely accusing or whether a man was violently raping his wife (see r Kelly). There are shades of grey, and innocent until proven guilty. False accusations should result in severe punishment for the accuser.


101 posted on 01/31/2019 9:39:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: murron

Same to you. Just as likely she could have left but mutilated him instead.


102 posted on 02/01/2019 5:25:44 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Yaelle

The allegation of rape was never proven. Just her word.
I view that allegation with the same skepticism I do when I hear some Amish person allege a “racial slur” provoked an incident


103 posted on 02/01/2019 5:29:46 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Hulka

She could have but obviously wanted to hurt him.


104 posted on 02/01/2019 12:52:09 PM PST by murron
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To: Paladin2
"They found it, put it on ice in a Big Bite hot dog box from a nearby 7-Eleven ..."

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LOL

People's Cube?

105 posted on 02/02/2019 1:37:49 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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