"According to the arrest affidavit, Pennington went to the victim’s apartment at about 10 a.m. on May 17 and used a scalpel from an Army surgical medical kit to remove the woman’s testicles. "


There is something really, really wrong with that sentence.


Denver Post, I understand that being PC overrides every other standard of journalism, even the most basic one of all, accuracy.  However, when it gets this pathetic, you really need to stop and think about what it is you are doing.  When your writing causes so many people's eyebrows to be raised in incredulity, you have really got yourself a problem.