A woman has been accused of cutting off her husband’s penis and leaving a knife buried in the dead man’s eyeball in Argentina.
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The suspect, Florencia Amado Cattaneo, 41, has been arrested for the horrific alleged murder and sent for psychiatric assessment.
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Victim, Pedro Federico Zarate’s body was reportedly found at the couple’s flat in Altos de San Lorenzo with the knife embedded in his eye, and his genitals mutilated.
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Cattaneo, a psychologist, was arrested on 11th January after fleeing to her mother’s house in a taxi ‘with bloodstains on her hands’, her sister Patricia told local media.
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Her 50-year-old husband’s body was found by his sister-in-law on the bed at the apartment he shared with his wife and five-year-old son. He had stab wounds all over his body, including his chest, and his genitals were mutilated, according to local media reports.
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Amado Cattaneo has been admitted to the psychiatric ward of a medical centre in La Plata, where she will undergo tests. If she is ruled mentally incompetent, she will not go on trial, say investigators and the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Footage from the police station as Cattaneo arrived showed her being helped forward by officers with a grimace on her face, local reports said.
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Pedro, 47, was a trumpet player and a music producer. He had worked at the Estacion Provincial cultural centre in La Plata since 2006. He married Amado Cattaneo in 2017.
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Citing neighbours, local reports said the couple have a five-year-old son and had been together for over a decade.