A woman chopped off her husband's penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife and
threw it in the garbage disposal, a court heard yesterday.Catherine Kieu, 50, is accused of drugging her estranged husband's tofu with sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack.
Audio of the July 11, 2011, incident was captured by a voice-activated recorder Kieu had hidden in the bedroom, according to the deputy district attorney.
She is heard yelling "you deserve it" three times before the attack.
The sound of the garbage disposal unit being turned on is also heard on the recording, the deputy district attorney added.
The victim's penis was too badly mangled to be re-attached, but he survived the attack.
The prosecution alleges that Kieu was motivated by jealousy, and that she was angry about her husband's plans to divorce her because he was seeing his ex-girlfriend.
Kieu's traumatic childhood in war-torn Vietnam caused mental illness that bars her from a mayhem or torture conviction, the defence said.
The court heard 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.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
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