Overview

• Lorena Bobbitt, now Lorena Gallo, gives a detailed first-person account of the night she severed John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis after what she describes as prolonged abuse and a sexual assault.
• Police testimony recounts John arriving at an emergency room around 5 a.m., and surgeon James Sehn later restored his ability to urinate.
• Gallo says she discarded the severed organ near a stop sign by a 7-Eleven before contacting police.
• John Wayne Bobbitt denied assault and rape, and he was acquitted of marital sexual assault on November 11, 1993, according to contemporaneous reporting.
• Recent pieces highlight Gallo’s ongoing advocacy work and her documentary retelling, as well as her Virginia-based Lorena Gallo Foundation, while noting John’s later career in adult films.