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ACQUITTED: A woman who castrated her husband with a pair of scissors was acquitted Friday of mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon, but jurors in the Los Angeles trial failed to reach a verdict on the lesser charge of battery. The prosecutor said he would seek to have Aurelia Macias retried on the battery charge. Macias testified that she cut off Jamie Macias' testicles on Sept. 20, 1992, because he was about to rape her and she feared for her life. She also said she had been beaten and abused all during her 17-year marriage.