Her case is in the court this week, with jury to deliberate until Monday. Lots of news on the case:
Video news here: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local ... 83891.html
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Woman accused of severing husband's penis was vengeful, D.A. says
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By A Times Staff Writer
April 25, 2013, 7:49 p.m.
Prosecutors and defense attorney on Thursday offered differing portraits of the Garden Grove woman accused of lacing her husband's dinner with drugs, cutting off his penis and tossing it in a garbage disposal.
Catherine Kieu, 50, faces felony charges of torture and aggravated mayhem, with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife, the Orange County district attorney's office said. She faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Kieu was arrested on the night of July 11, 2011, after she and her 60-year-old husband -- whose name has not been released -- apparently argued about the possibility of a friend staying at their home, prosecutors said. Kieu allegedly prepared an Ambien-laced dinner, prompting the man to become drowsy and go to bed.
As he slept, Kieu allegedly tied his legs and arms to the corners of the bed with rope. When he awoke, prosecutors said, she pulled down his pants, grabbed his penis and cut it with a knife.
She then allegedly went to the kitchen, threw it in the garbage disposal and turned the disposal on, prosecutors said, "mutilating the organ."
Kieu called 911 and said her husband was bleeding, prosecutors said. The man spoke to the dispatcher and said his wife had cut off his penis.
Garden Grove police arrived, and the man was rushed to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange. The Times previously reported that emergency surgery to reattach the severed organ was unsuccessful.
Police told The Times after the arrest that Kieu had told officers her husband deserved it. She later pleaded not guilty to the charges.
On Thursday, her defense attorneys said Kieu "had a break with reality," according to a report in the Orange County Register.
During opening statements, Kieu's attorney said his client grew up in war-torn Vietnam and suffered from mental problems, according to the Associated Press.
Prosecutors argued she was motivated by jealousy. She had a tough life in Vietnam, "but it doesn't change the fact she sliced off the penis due to her vengeance, vanity and jealousy," said Deputy Dist. Atty. John Christi, according to the Register.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/18/ca ... his-penis/
California man says he was 'murdered' night wife allegedly cut off his penis
Published April 18, 2013
Associated Press
April 17: Catherine Kieu sits next to her attorney. Kieu is charged with cutting off a man's penis and throwing it into a garbage disposal. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register)
SANTA ANA, California The estranged husband of a woman charged with severing his penis said it was as though his life ended the evening of the attack.
"She murdered me that night," the man said Wednesday on the first day of the trial of Catherine Kieu, 50.
Orange County Deputy District Attorney John Christl said in his opening statement that Kieu, angry because her husband was dating a former girlfriend, laced his food with sleeping pills on July 11, 2011, then tied him to a bed, severed his penis and put it in the garbage disposal.
"I will never have a sex life again," said the husband, who had surgery that allows him to urinate. The penis could not be reattached. "My mental state is improving, but it may never be what it was before," he said.
The man is going only by his first name in court and is not being named by The Associated Press because of the sexual nature of the attack.
The husband said he remembered waking tied to the bed. "All of a sudden I felt a very sharp pain," he said.
In his opening statement, Deputy Public Defender Frank Bittar told jurors that Kieu's traumatic childhood in war-torn Vietnam caused mental illness that should prevent her from conviction on the charges of aggravated mayhem and torture.
Bittar said Kieu met the victim at a gym, and after they married he subjected her to sexual and verbal abuse, and filed for divorce while they continued to live together in his Garden Grove home.
Prosecutors played audio in court that was captured by a voice-activated recorder Kieu had hidden in the bedroom, according to Christl. She is heard yelling "you deserve it" three times before the attack on the recording.
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Re: Catherine Becker-Kieu case is in court right now (woman that severed penis in LA)
If she gets away with it , it would be thanks to powerful feminazi pro lobby movements
Toxic women don't surprise me at all these days.
They hate men, trans folk and complain, complain and complain.
The degree of Misandry is sadly too deeply ingrained in today's society.
In health care for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcADwJs ... w&index=21
Cases of rape and sodomy(when women do it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpr3hr0 ... w&index=25
Toxic women don't surprise me at all these days.
They hate men, trans folk and complain, complain and complain.
The degree of Misandry is sadly too deeply ingrained in today's society.
In health care for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcADwJs ... w&index=21
Cases of rape and sodomy(when women do it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpr3hr0 ... w&index=25
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Re: Catherine Becker-Kieu case is in court right now (woman that severed penis in LA)
I guess what I'm trying to say is For Men to learn to say "no".
Don't jump too soon into someone's pants, you just may find vagina dentata LMAO.
Take it slowly, identify the red flags that make that person toxic before your life is ruined.
Unless you want to end up with your bits snipped.
The War between the sexes has only just begun
Don't jump too soon into someone's pants, you just may find vagina dentata LMAO.
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Take it slowly, identify the red flags that make that person toxic before your life is ruined.
Unless you want to end up with your bits snipped.
The War between the sexes has only just begun
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