The perp, pictured below, is Catherine Kieu Becker, 48, who may now face a life sentence for aggravated mayhem.
The bloodthirsty Kieu Becker certainly deserves to spend the rest of her life behind bars. But judging by the mainstream media's response to the story, we wouldn't be surprised if her sentence is light, or if her actions are excused because she was going through a divorce. There seems to be a big lack of outrage on the part of talking heads and scribblers who would otherwise be spewing condemnation if the victim were the wife and the husband were the perp.
This is as far as the outrage goes at least in the Los Angeles times which was the first to cover the story: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0713-penis-chopped-20110713,0,4047087.story.
Since this story broke, it has quietly slipped from the headlines, which might give blade-happy people going through divorce the idea that genital mutilation is, somehow, not all that bad.
