A 65-year-old woman is facing charges of mutilation after she was caught mutilating her dead husband's penis so she could "pickle it as a souvenir of their marriage."

According to a report by The Sun, the woman was identified as Uta Schneider of Stuttgart, Germany, reportedly used a butcher's knife to sever the member at a local hospital.

Schneider then wrapped the penis in a foil and put it inside her lunch box to take home. A nurse saw what she had done and called the guards to arrest her.

Uta was married to 68-year-old Heinrich for 35 years and said she wanted to keep her husband's best asset.

She told the police, "It was his best asset and gave me so much pleasure. I wanted to pickle it for eternity. He would have wanted it. We called it his joystick. I wanted it to remember him by."