However, after evidence in the trial over the past month, prosecutors decided to upgrade the charges to "attempted homidicde. Attempting to explain her actions, Barattini said that her former lover — identified only as Sergio F. Detailing why she didn't seek to kill him, Barattini said that she was the one who sought assistance for him in the wake of the attack.
Barattini — who has come to be known as some as the "la Lorena Bobbit cordobesa " a reference to the American woman who in cut off her husband's penis after years of sexual abuse — explained that she had taken the decision to attack her boyfriend after learning that he had shared a series of intimate photos and videos of the couple having sex with his friends. Barattini is alleged to have cut off almost 90 percent of Sergio's penis and one of his testicles.
The victim, speaking earlier in the trial, detailed the horror that dawned upon him when he gave his versions of events. She also wanted to tie me up but I didn't want to," he added. Suddenly I felt something. She wanted to kill me in that second. I couldn't see anything. I tried to get up, I pulled up my trousers and grabbed by mobile phone to call an ambulance. I wanted to leave and she started to insult me.
She grabbed my t-shirt, my hair, she wouldn't let me leave. A former boyfriend of Barattini's, Gonzalo Rodriguez, also gave evidence to the court about his relationship with the accused.
He claimed that he received a call in the immediate aftermath of the account and that after rushing to Barattini's home, he discovered the accused in a state of undress and a "river of blood.
