Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Lorena Bobbitt Leaves Hospital

Lorena Bobbitt was released from a mental hospital, five weeks after a jury found her innocent by reason of temporary insanity in the sexual mutilation of her husband. Accepting a medical evaluation that said Bobbitt posed no threat to herself or to others, Judge Herman A. Whisenant Jr. ruled that the Ecuadorian-born manicurist could be freed from a Virginia state hospital as long as she remains in the state and continues to undergo psychiatric counseling. “I am looking forward to my healing process,” Bobbitt added in halting English. Her attorney said his client planned to move in “with a family that has been very supportive of her” and to return to her $24,000-a-year job as a manicurist.