
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 17, 1993                   TAG: 9311170090
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C4   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.                                LENGTH: Short

MUTILATED MAN STILL FACES PATERNITY CASE IN N.Y.

John Bobbitt, the man whose wife cut off his penis after she said he raped her, settled one of his New York court cases but still has to answer a paternity lawsuit.

Bobbitt is due in Niagara Falls Family Court on Nov. 23 for a paternity suit filed by Beatrice Williams, 21, of Niagara Falls.

Williams said she and Bobbitt had a three-month affair last year and that Bobbitt fathered her son, 10-month-old Andrew. She is suing Bobbitt for child support.

With the approval of court officials, Bobbitt sent a friend to a hearing Monday in Niagara Falls City Court to enter a guilty plea for driving with a loud muffler and to pay a $65 fine.

Court officials let Bobbitt send his friend because of the publicity he has received, said a court clerk who would not give her name.

A Niagara Falls native, Bobbitt had been ticketed last Dec. 23 for the loud muffler. He was arrested Sunday during another visit home and charged with skipping town on the traffic violation.

Bobbitt, 26, of Manassas, Va., received national publicity when his wife cut off his penis after, she contended, he repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Doctors reattached the penis.

Bobbitt was acquitted of the charge against him last week. Lorena Bobbitt, 24, faces a trial on a malicious-wounding charge Nov. 29. The Bobbitts are seeking a divorce.

Bobbitt has been staying with an aunt and uncle in Niagara Falls since his acquittal.

by CNB