Malicious castration is a
common law
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criminal offense
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consisting of the intentional
maiming
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: ''mutilus'') refers to severe damage to the body that has a ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life. It can also refer to alterations that render something inferior, ugly, dysfunctional, or imper ...
of another person's
genitalia
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. It is law 14–28 in the state of
North Carolina
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in the
United States
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.
North Carolina law
The state of North Carolina defines malicious castration:
If any person, of malice aforethought, shall unlawfully castrate any other person, or cut off, maim or disfigure any of the privy members of any person, with intent to murder, maim, disfigure, disable or render impotent such person, the person so offending shall be punished as a Class C felon.
North Carolina cases
*In 2006 Rebecca Arnold Dawson was charged with malicious castration for maiming the genitals of a man with her hands. The man needed 50 stitches.
*Martinne Delavega claimed self defense in a September 2015 attack on her boyfriend. She had bit his
scrotum
The scrotum or scrotal sac is an anatomical male reproductive structure located at the base of the penis that consists of a suspended dual-chambered sac of skin and smooth muscle. It is present in most terrestrial male mammals. The scrotum cont ...
. She was acquitted in 2018.
*In September 2019 Victoria Thomas Frabutt used a pruning shears to cut off her husband's penis. She is awaiting trial.
*In August 2019 Candace Grantham was charged with malicious castration. She is awaiting trial.
See also
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Lorena Bobbitt
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Bertha Boronda
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Brigitte Harris case
Brigitte Harris (born June 6, 1981) is an American woman from Queens, New York, who was convicted of manslaughter in the castration of her father, Eric Goodridge, in her Rockaway apartment. Both Harris and her sister, Carleen Goodridge, claimed t ...
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Catherine Kieu
Catherine Kieu (Born March 10, 1963), also known as Catherine Kieu Becker, is an American woman who was convicted of torture and aggravated mayhem in 2013 for mutilating her husband's genitalia. The couple had been in the process of getting a div ...
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Emasculation
Emasculation is the removal of both the penis and the testicles, the external male sex organs. It differs from castration, which is the removal of the testicles only, although the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. The potential medical ...
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Francine Hughes
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and ''
The Burning Bed
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Genital modification and mutilation
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Law and Order, Season 4, Episode 17'' "Mayhem"
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Lin and Xie case
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Penectomy
Penectomy is penis removal through surgery, generally for medical or personal reasons.
Medical reasons for penectomy
Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of part or all of the penis. The amount of penis removed depends on the se ...
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Penis removal
In ancient civilizations, the removal of the human penis was sometimes used to demonstrate superiority or dominance over an enemy. Armies were sometimes known to sever the penises of their enemies to count the dead, as well as for trophies. The ...
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Penis transplantation
Penis transplantation is a surgical transplant procedure in which a penis is transplanted to a patient. The penis may be an allograft from a human donor, or it may be grown artificially, though the latter has not yet been transplanted onto a hu ...
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Sada Abe
was a Empire of Japan, Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, , via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his Human penis, penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her kimono. The story became a natio ...
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