Mother who sliced daughter’s boyfriend manhood is spared jail

Indianapolis, USA:  A mum who sliced her daughter's teenage boyfriend's manhood with a knife after accusing him of molesting her toddler son, has been spared jail.

Bonita Vela attacked the 18 year-old with a box cutter while she and two men held him for three hours in a mobile home on December 28, 2013.

She wrongly alleged he had attacked her two year old child and reportedly told him that he would "have to choose his life or his manhood."

She told him if he didn't have anything to hide "then he should let her cut him and that regardless of what happened he was to leave and never come back," the police report said.

The 36 year-old pleaded guilty to confinement and battery at court.

She was sentenced to 10 months home detention with an ankle bracelet, and six months’ probation and anger management counselling, the Daily Journal reports.

She claimed she had only wanted to frighten the teenager during the attack, in Franklin, Indiana, and that he was cut as he attempted to knock the knife out of her hand.

Vela admitted her "suspicions developed after she had been smoking marijuana," the Indianapolis Star reports.

The teenager told police he did not touch the child. He did not seek a prison sentence for Vela so long as she acknowledged her crime.