LOS ANGELES : Couple in Castration Case Reconcile, Lawyer Says
An attorney representing a Los Angeles woman charged with castrating her husband said Thursday that the couple have reconciled.
Nan Whitfield, a Los Angeles County deputy public defender, said Aurelia and Jaime Macias want to put the Sept. 20, 1992, attack behind them and rehabilitate their 17-year marriage. Whitfield is asking that charges against the woman be dropped, but Deputy Dist. Atty. Lawrence Longo said the state has no intention of doing so.
Aurelia Macias, 34, a mother of three, is accused of severing her husband’s testicles with a pair of scissors as he slept.
The case has been compared to that of the highly publicized Lorena Bobbitt case. Bobbitt is a Virginia woman who severed her sleeping husband’s penis with a knife. Unlike the Bobbitt case, doctors were unable to surgically reattach Macias’ parts.
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