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Lorena Bobbitt Cut Off Her Husband's Genitals After Years of Alleged Abuse. Inside Her Life Today (people.com)
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Since making headlines in June 1993 for severing her then-husband’s penis, Lorena Bobbitt has used her platform to advocate for domestic violence survivors

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[-] velma 7 points 2 days ago

Lorena, who now goes by her maiden name of Gallo, still resides in Manassas with her daughter and partner of over 20 years, according to TIME.

She is an advocate for domestic violence and the founder of the Lorena Gallo Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, intervention and awareness services in Prince William County, Va.

“One of my missions is to educate the public and young women about the red flags in dating an abuser. I go to colleges and talk to sororities,” she told TIME in 2018. “I volunteer in local shelters for victims of domestic violence in northern Virginia. I’m a facilitator. I’m not a doctor, I’m not a psychologist — but we teach them to set boundaries, so eventually they end up figuring out the answer themselves.”

Lorena has also been involved in several of the projects that tell her side of the story, including Prime Video’s 2019 docuseries Lorena, which was produced by Jordan Peele.

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