Woman who tried chopping off ex-husband's manhood with scissors acquitted

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A 72-year-old woman has been spared jail after trying to cut off her husband's manhood with a pair of scissors.

Virginia Valdez, 72, was sentenced to three years' probation and 429 hours of community service for the 2011 attack on her 62-year-old husband Cesar Valdez.

The couple, who had been married for 32 years but were going through a divorce at the time, were getting intimate in the bedroom on the day of the attack.

She claimed she was going to clean her teeth but returned with the scissors.

Mr. Valdez stemmed the flow of blood with towels and quickly called an ambulance

Mr. Valdez says he feels the criminals justice system has double standards when it comes to domestic violence where the victim is a man.

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"I am here in front of you today to emphasize that male spouses can also be victims of domestic violence, but in some cases, men are afraid to talk for fear of ridicule or for fear of being labelled as some sort of freak or a wimp," he told ABC7.

 Attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Mr Valdez, held up a pair of heavy-duty scissors and said: "There was a lot of blood coming out of his manhood as a result of her attack on him."

"He feels that if he had been a woman victim of domestic violence that the case would not have been permitted to be delayed for so long and that the punishment for Virginia would have been harsher," she said outside court.

While the criminal trial is over, the two ex-spouses are involved in a civil litigation battle.