'Lorena': Looking back at the sensational Bobbitt trial that launched a 'battle of the sexes' in America
The Lorena Bobbitt trial from 1994 was about how a domestic abuse victim was able to throw the problem into the spotlight and introduce the citizens of the world to marital rape and abuse. After enduring five years of John Wayne Bobbitt's physical and mental abuse, Lorena, who now goes by Lorena Gallo, had received enough and took matters into her own hands, literally.
She went to have a drink of water one night after John came back home drunk and allegedly raped her and that is when she spotted a 12-inch knife on the kitchen counter. Lorena proceeded to take the knife, go up to the bedroom, and slice off her abusive husband's penis. She then drove in a panic to her boss Janna's home after having thrown the severed appendage out the window on to the grass, close to a 7-Eleven.