The Most Bizarre Things About The Lorena Bobbitt Case

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Friday, May 3, 2024

On June 21, 1993, just two days before she was charged with cutting off John Wayne Bobbitt's member, Lorena Bobbitt had asked a judge to grant her a restraining order against him, The Washington Post reported at the time. However, a court official said Lorena missed her court date. According to the official, Bobbitt was told that the paperwork would be processed within three hours, but that she said she didn't want to wait and opted to have lunch with a friend instead.

Stephen Roque, "a counselor with the county's Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court," asked if Bobbitt was concerned for her safety and she said she wasn't. Bobbitt denied this version, saying she was informed the paperwork would be ready for her to sign in two days, or June 23, 1993 — which is when the tragic events took place.

One of Bobbitt's lawyers, James Lowe, said court officials weren't to blame from the events of that night, though a quicker response could have helped prevent it, according to The Washington Post. "Whether intervention in a more timely fashion would have prevented the occurrence or much of the abuse that she received is hard to say," Lowe said. "It certainly wouldn't have hurt."

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