Boobytrap: The Castration Game

Anna Bachmeier, what an angel!

This pretty German girl of seven, Anna Bachmeier, had the misfortune of catching the eye of a well-known pedophile and repeated sex offender, namely the 35 years old butcher, Klaus Grabowski. He told her that he had kittens in his home and she, who was a great animal lover, came to see them. Nobody seems to have warned her or her Mom, Marianne Bachmeier (1950-1996), of this sex crazed man who kidnapped, raped and killed the child when she came to see his presumed kittens on the 5th of May, 1980. Sadly enough this kidnapping and repeated rapes are not an uncommon scenery, because it has happened all over the planet, over and over again. Many women and girls have lost their lives because some man had an urge to commit these crimes, but still, this case is in many ways different from most of them as the mother of the victim, 30 years old Marianne Bachmeier, decided to revenge her child. When Klaus Grabowski was put on trial in 1981 she shot him in the courtroom, shouting: "This if for you, Anna!"

The bereaved mother sparked international interest and that may have helped her in her own trial as she only received a conviction of manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm. She was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released on bail after three. Many, all over the world, sympathized with her and found this short span of prison time appropriate for a killer like her: The bereaved mother. More came to be known of her life which may also have been in her favour: Her father, who was a heavy drinker, had been in Hitler's Waffen SS and he brought his Nazi brutality into the home of his family. At the age of 16 Marianne got pregnant and had to put the child up for adoption. Two years later the same happened once again, but when she godt pregnant the third time she decided to keep the child, her daughter Anna.

The father of the child didn't commit to either her or their daughter so she had to do everything herself. The mother and daughter seem to have been very attached to each other even though it can't have been easy to be an unwed mother at that time. However, Marianne managed.

Two people lost their lives because of the sad assault on this child: Anna and her attacker, Klaus Grabowski. However, both might have lived had the sex maniac butcher not dodged the medical treatment he had been sentenced to receive after one of his repeated offences.

He was supposed to take testosterone suppressers, but cheated and even succeeded in getting hormone boosters from doctors who didn't know about him and his previous crimes. Had he accepted the medical treatment he would have been virtually castrated. Actually, Germany is one of the countries which adhere to this treatment of criminals who commit grave sexual offences. Denmark, along with Britain and Sweden, also use medical castrations when it's deemed necessary. Surgical castrations are more rare, but also in e.g. USA there are chemical castration laws, including in California, that's the first state to legalize the measure.

However, private castrations as a female weapon against men and their various kinds of tyranny when it is at its worst is not all that uncommon. One of the best known cases is that of Lorena Bobbitt and her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, but they are not the only ones. Women have sought revenge or protection against male assaults by harming one of the most vulnerable spots on their body, e.g. their penis, either by hand or by knife. A swift movement downwards of an erect penis may lead to a more or less untreatable injury that puts a stop to rape for all eternity, but strangely enough a severed penis like in the Bobbitt case may be treated surgically and (presumably) be cured. At least that's the message we get from Bobbitt's porn career after the attack by his wife. He did everything in his power to prove that he and his penis were still functional.

Several of these women who feel that they have to defend themselves by cutting off a man's penis say they did so to avoid rape. There are other ways, like e.g. this gadget:

Some women who feel very vulnerable to males with criminal sex urges may resort to something like this "Rapex". I bet it works when used, but I doubt it's pleasant to the woman to wear. As to the men who meet a "Repex" or another gadget like it when they feel safe to force their way then I'm sure they will regret their actions ....