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Man Pleads Guilty in Genital Surgery Case - [Oddly Enough] Source: http://www.ircspy.com
Submitted by scienott on 9/12/2004

Such a sick story should make most of us appreciate some sort of sanity…damn, that is sick - read at your own risk.
Get to know your doctor (and why not your priest) before undergoing anything serious…

Jack Wayne Rogers, a former church minister and Boy Scout leader who cut off another man’s genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery in a hotel room, pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license.

Rogers was sentenced 17 years in prison for assault and seven years for the illegal surgery.

The prison time is to run concurrently with a 30-year sentence handed to Rogers in April after he pleaded guilty to child pornography and obscenity charges.

Rogers promised Michael Abercrombie he’d remove his genitals in a four-hour operation. That time passed, complications developed and bleeding refused to stop.

Abercrombie, now known as Madison, says she didn’t feel like a victim at first, but changed her mind after prosecutors presented her Rogers’ checkered criminal history, peppered with allegations of cannibalism and a pornography collection that included photographs of severed genitals.

Valerie Leftwich, Rogers’ public defender, said she advised her client to plead guilty to avoid further prison time.

“He is getting concurrent time,” she said. “If he had gone to trial, he very well could have gotten consecutive time.”