Teenage Girl Destroys Boyfriend's Penis with Acid

On 2 February 2015, the Times of Johannesburg, South Africa, and other news outlets published an account from the African Eye News Service (AENS) about a 25-year-old

man named Humphrey Khoza who was reportedly attacked with battery acid by his 17-year-old girlfriend on 17 January 2015 while he was drinking beer with friends at a tavern in Cork village near Hazyview, Mpumalanga (a province in eastern South Africa). According to the report, the unnamed girlfriend was furious with Khoza for having secretly made and distributed a video of the two of them engaging in sex, so she poured acid onto his genitals as punishment, leaving Khoza with a "penis would [that] never work again due to the damage caused by the acid," and having "to urinate through a tube and undergo surgery."

A South African Press Association (SAPA) account of the purported incident relayed the girl's self-described motivations for her actions:

"I heard about the video from one of my classmates and I thought that they were joking, but then I saw the video myself and lost my mind."

She said Khoza had tricked her because she was not aware he was not using a condom or that he was filming them.

"I had to do something to show him that I was angry and wanted to hurt him so that he can see that he messed with the wrong girl," she said.

She searched in her father's tools for a wheel spanner she could use to teach Khoza a lesson.

"While I was searching I came across an old acid bottle. I took it and went straight to his regular drinking place and when I got there I became angrier. I didn't hesitate to pour the acid on him," she said.