I don't normally get into "News of the Weird" type stories, but rules have exceptions, you know. Like the story this past weekend about the drunken Christmas party that ended in a woman being charged with "malicious castration" for, with her bare hands mind you, grabbing a man's genitals and inflicting a wound requiring 50 stiches to close. It's the name of the charge that got me.
Malicious castration. As differentiated from...say, "benign castration" or maybe "just kidding around castration"? "Mercy castration"? I mean if it were "accidental" (as I'm sure happens from time to time) there wouldn't have to be a criminal charge name for it, right?
What next? A "mean-spirited murder" statute? (Oops...got that already. Hate crimes laws.)
UPDATE 1/2: Ace's take
Posted by dan at January 2, 2007 04:43 PM | TrackBack