Lorena Bobbitt falsified customer tickets at the nail salon where she worked, and her boss discovered she had taken approximately $7,200 over time; charges were not pressed.
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The years following their wedding saw the Bobbitt marriage collapse in slow motion. Lorena claimed verbal abuse quickly gave way to physical violence, especially when she declined John's sexual demands. Manassas police responded to their home on multiple occasions for domestic violence complaints, and one incident resulted in John's arrest for assault and battery — charges that were later dropped. Friends at the nail salon began noticing bruises on Lorena's arms and neck; she took to sleeping in her car outside the salon when things got dangerous at home. In 1991, John was discharged from the Marines and struggled to find steady work, leaving Lorena as the couple's sole financial support on a nail tech's salary. Their home eventually went into foreclosure. Desperate, Lorena began falsifying customer tickets at the salon, and over time her boss discovered she had taken approximately $7,200 — but chose not to press charges, telling a reporter that Lorena had said she loved John and wanted to make the marriage work. It's a detail that captures the cycle of abuse with painful precision: she was stealing for a man who was allegedly hurting her.
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