This was a 'He said... She said..." scenario. I do know one of the insiders of that scenario. I don't know all of the facts, not sure anyone does. But both were angry and mean to one another. Having counseled more than a few couples, I know that men tend to be insensitive jerks, and women tend to pull the 'victim' card to justify whatever they 'feel' like doing to their husbands.
Women's Rights groups rallied behind her, as do ethnic and racial groups to vindicate their own. She should have just left him, not taken a knife to him.
If he'd have dismembered her in some way, they would have hanged him by his... well you know.
Although later aquitted (legally), she afterward also admitted to beating up her very own mother, while the elderly women was just sitting and watching TV:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/08/us/bobbitt-s-ex-wife-charged-in-assault.html?sec=healthHe also carried his anger issues with him after their divorce,...manifested by several assault charges.
A sad scenario, for sure.
BTW: No I'm not prejudice, just factual. I am a white male; my wife is black-from Kenya, is a teacher, like me, and teaches math and physics. She is also often appalled at Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton for their intermittent lapses in objectivity. WASPS have their Archie Bunkers too. No matter what happened, be careful what you accept as true. It takes sometimes months for me to get to the bottom of things in counseling couples.
BTW2: She married again;.. don't know how someone could fall asleep in the same bed with her. "Sweet dreams" scenario:
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