Lorena Bobbitt's Kevo

South American immigrant Lorena Gallo Bobbitt was a housewife with a career as a manicurist before she became a symbol of women’s intolerance of abuse from men with a swift stroke of a kitchen knife one summer night in 1993.

After a long period of verbal and physical abuse which culminated in forced sex, she castrated her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, took the offending organ, and threw it into a field.

The resulting trial for malicious wounding cast her in an international spotlight and when the verdict - not guilty by reason of insanity - was in on January 21, 1994, Bobbitt was committed to a mental health facility for a 45-day observation period. "It was a relief," she told reporters after the trial. "It was away from the media, the circus."

After her divorce from John Bobbitt in 1995, she disappeared from public view until December 5, 1997, when she wound up in court again. This time, she was charged with punching her mother and cutting her face while they watched television. She was later acquitted of those charges. At last report, Bobbitt was still living with her mother in Lake Ridge, Virginia, and working as a manicurist in nearby Alexandria.
Work History
1999 Manicurist in Manassas, Virginia

1993 Manicurist in Alexandria, Virginia