Wife 'chopped off husband's penis and threw it in garbage disposal unit'
Catherine Kieu is accused of drugging her estranged husband's tofu with sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack
Accused: Catherine Kieu sits next to her attorney
Accused: Catherine Kieu sits next to her attorney
A woman chopped off her husband's penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife
and threw it in the garbage disposal, a court heard yesterday.atherine
Kieu, 50, is accused of drugging her estranged husband's tofu with
sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack.udio of
the July 11, 2011, incident was captured by a voice-activated recorder
Kieu had hidden in the bedroom, according to the deputy district
attorney.She is heard yelling "you deserve it" three times before the attack.The sound of the garbage disposal unit being turned on is also heard on the recording, the deputy district attorney added.The victim's penis was too badly mangled to be re-attached, but he survived the attack.The
prosecution alleges that Kieu was motivated by jealousy, and that she
was angry about her husband's plans to divorce her because he was seeing
his ex-girlfriend.Kieu's traumatic childhood in war-torn Vietnam
caused mental illness that bars her from a mayhem or torture
conviction, the defence said.The court heard Kieu met the victim
at a gym, and after they married he subjected her to sexual and verbal
abuse and filed for divorce while they continued to live together.The trial is expected to last two weeks.