Lust lands man in trouble
HANOI - A pregnant woman in Vietnam was given a 20-month suspended sentence for cutting off the penis of her philandering husband after he threatened to divorce her, officials said on Tuesday.
The Dalat People's Court in Lam Dong province handed down the sentence to Nguyen Thi Thu H, last week after finding her guilty of taking a pair of scissors to her husband's genitalia, a court clerk said.
Nguyen, 31, told the court that she attacked her husband, a 38-year-old paediatrician, on April 28 when he slapped her after she refused to buy him more wine and then threatened to divorce her.
Nguyen, whose full name was withheld by the court, said that because his sexual lust for other women was the cause of all her sufferings she decided to sever his penis while he was lying drunk in bed.
It was she, however, who took him to hospital when she saw how badly he was bleeding as a result of her actions.
The clerk said the court had given her a suspended sentence because she had shown remorse and because she is currently seven months pregnant.
Agence France Presse - November 04, 2003.
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