A MANwas left howling in agony after his ex-wife chopped off his penis and testicles before dousing them in acid and flushing them down the loo.

Cops in Taiwan said Ms Lee, 58, brutally attacked the man in revenge for him cheating on her when they were married.

4 The man was taken to hospital after being attacked, but his genitals remain missing Credit: AsiaWire

After learning about him being unfaithful, she used a sharp pair of scissors to cut her former husband's genitals off, leaving him with just one centimetre (0.4ins) of manhood.

Police said that Ms Lee told him during the attack: “If I can't have it, no one else can”, before she tried to kill herself by overdosing on sleeping tablets.

The assault took place in the couple’s home in the township of Hukou, in Taiwan’s north-west on July 24.

Authorities from the local Xinhu Precinct said they received a call from a howling Mr Chen, 56, at 8.50pm local time.

He feared more violence from his ex-wife and had locked himself in the toilet for safety, they added.

According to reports, the couple had divorced less than a month ago.

But as Mr Chen had been jobless for two years, he continued to be financially supported by his ex-wife.

Ms Lee was said to have devised a plan to remove his manhood after learning that he had been seeing another woman behind her back while they were married.



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Local media reports said she “seduced” him with the promise of sex and then grabbed his penis before shearing it off with scissors, followed by both testicles.

She then allegedly poured acid on them and flushed them down the toilet.

Xinhu Precinct deputy chief Kao Kai-long said: “While the victim had his pants down, the suspect used a pair of scissors to cut off [his] genitals.”

The authorities said they have not been able to retrieve them.

Arriving officers added that Ms Lee was found unconscious in the home after she ingested sleeping pills in a bid to kill herself.

Both she and her ex were taken to National Taiwan University Hospital Zhudong Branch and are in a stable condition.

The hospital’s head of urology Chang Chen-yeh said they would not have been able to reattach Mr Chen’s penis even if cops had found it.

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His genitals would have been contaminated with bacteria, and in any case the chances of him ever regaining sexual function were “extremely low”.

Neighbours told reporters that the couple did not have any children and often argued.

The police said they were waiting for the pair's health to improve before taking written statements and formally charging and detaining Ms Lee.

4 Above: where the pair had been living at the time of the assault in Hukou, in Taiwan’s north-west Credit: AsiaWire

4 Ms Lee was also taken to hospital for treatment Credit: AsiaWire