She hit his hand away and left the room, returning a short time later and apologising for starting the argument. The pair then had consensual sex.<\/p>\n
The man soon went to sleep, but she stayed awake, eventually getting dressed and leaving the room to get a knife from the kitchen drawer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defendant placed the knife down and lay on the bed next to the victim for an unknown amount of time, thinking and saying aloud to the sleeping victim that he would not cheat again or bring sin on to their daughters,\u201d the summary read.<\/p>\n
About 3.45am, she picked up the knife and grabbed the man\u2019s penis with her right hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHolding the knife in her left hand, she began slicing at the victim\u2019s penis with all her strength, partially severing the victim\u2019s penis from his torso.\u201d<\/p>\n
The man woke up screaming and yelled at the woman to get out. She walked to the porch, where she placed the knife on a set of drawers.<\/p>\n
She stayed at the property until police arrived.<\/p>\n
The summary said the man suffered \u201cextensive injuries to his genitals\u201d, requiring emergency surgery. No further update on his condition was provided.<\/p>\n
The woman, who has previously appeared before the court, told police her husband had been cheating on her for two decades, \u201cand she decided to cut his penis off to stop his cheating\u201d, the summary said.<\/p>\n
The Herald attended an earlier appearance in November last year, during which the woman\u2019s children supported her in court.<\/p>\n
At the time, her lawyer requested interim name suppression until a mental health report could be done.<\/p>\n
Judge John Walker said at that hearing that he was satisfied name suppression should be in place as there was an \u201carguable case\u201d for it on the grounds of potential mental health issues, as well as hardship to the woman, her children and the complainant if her name were to be published.<\/p>\n
The Herald opposed name suppression, but the full hearing on whether her name should remain secret has been rescheduled at least three times. It will now be dealt with at sentencing, which has also been repeatedly rescheduled since the woman\u2019s guilty plea in March. It is now due to be back in court in October.<\/p>\n
Despite the Herald\u2019s application for the summary of facts in March, the court released it only recently.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s a very uncommon injury\u2019<\/p>\n
Christchurch reconstructive urologist Giovanni Losco said injuries in which a penis had been removed through some type of trauma were \u201cextremely rare\u201d in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Canterbury urologist Giovanni Losco said such injuries in New Zealand were “extremely rare”.<\/p>\n
He had come across some cases in which patients had suffered similar injuries in mountain biking accidents or had attempted self-circumcision as adults.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m actually not aware that there\u2019s ever been a case of someone that\u2019s completely chopped off their penis … it\u2019s a very uncommon injury.\u201d <\/p>\n
The urethra needed to be repaired as well as the tubes supplying blood, which create erections. The nerves that were damaged were more difficult to fix.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the nerves have been cut, then you basically can\u2019t really repair those. They might self-heal over a very, very long time, like it can take several years, but there\u2019d be a very high chance the patient would be left with a numbness or lack of sensation in the penis,\u201d Losco said.<\/p>\n
Surgeon Jim Duthie (right) said urologists would have repaired the urethra and blood vessels, while plastic surgeons tackled the more microscopic nerve work. File photo \/ John Borren <\/p>\n
He noted that cutting off the penis could be a life-threatening injury as it had \u201cvery large blood vessels\u201d, which could experience significant bleeding. <\/p>\n
Urological surgeon Jim Duthie said it was unusual to perform penis repair surgeries in New Zealand, and complete amputation was most likely in cases of interpersonal violence.<\/p>\n
He once treated a patient whose penis suffered a crush injury after being caught in an industrial freezer door, while other patients had damaged theirs in accidents such as motorcycle crashes.<\/p>\n
He had a colleague in Germany who treated several patients whose penises had been chopped off as \u201croutine punishment\u201d by Russian gang members, he said.<\/p>\n
Urologists would have more involvement with fixing the urethra and blood vessels, while plastic surgeons would be responsible for the \u201cvery fine work\u201d of reattaching arteries and nerve sheaths so the patient could have \u201da fighting chance\u201d of natural erectile function. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe structures we\u2019re dealing with are not microscopic. That\u2019s the plastic surgeon\u2019s job. It\u2019s not rocket science for us; it\u2019s well within our toolkit of abilities,\u201d Duthie said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not something that any urologist in New Zealand does regularly, but we\u2019ve got the skills from other operations that we can apply.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had not operated on anyone whose penis had been cut off, but had repaired fractures before. The Porirua incident was unusual enough that \u201cword got around\u201d in the surgical community when it happened, he said.<\/p>\n
The case echoes the infamous 1993 story of Lorena Bobbitt, an American woman who cut off the penis of her then-husband, John Wayne Bobbitt<\/a>, with a kitchen knife.<\/p>\n She later drove around Virginia and threw the penis out of her car window. Police found it, and it was successfully reattached.<\/p>\n John Bobbitt would eventually go on US TV show Scandal Made Me Famous to speak about the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cI looked down, and there was blood everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a devastating thing to happen to you suddenly. Suicide seemed like the only answer.\u201d<\/p>\nLorena Bobbitt made headlines around the world when she cut off her husband’s penis. Photo \/ Amazon Prime Video<\/p>\n