Courtesy of Fuckinggossip.com:
AP - PONTIAC, Mich. - Prosecutors say Shuo-Shan Wang performed a castration on a kitchen table without a medical license.
The engineer from Taiwan, who is in the United States on a student visa, was arrested in June after a man began hemorrhaging outside his home following a voluntary castration.
Wang pleaded guilty in December to charges of practicing medicine without a license and dispensing prescription medicine without a license.
He withdrew his plea in February after an Oakland County judge said he would sentence the man to more than six months in jail.
Jury selection for Wang's trial was expected to begin Tuesday, The Detroit News reported.
The felony charge of practicing medicine without a license carries up to four years in prison upon conviction.
Wang's attorney, Steve Reina, has said his client doesn't deserve a harsh punishment because he has no prior criminal record and performed the castration on a Birmingham man who requested the procedure.
But Assistant Prosecutor Ken Frazee said consent is no defense.
"I think the jury will see pretty clearly you can't have people going around performing medical procedures without the proper licensing," he said.
Authorities say Wang operated at his home in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park. Afterward, he and the 48-year-old man shared some pie at the same table. Wang did not charge for the surgery.
The man was seeking the castration because he had a sexually transmitted disease and no longer wanted a sex drive, prosecutors have said. He found Wang while searching the Internet for someone to castrate him.
Wang told police he learned the skill from his grandparents. He performed his first surgery on a dog and then on the dog's owner and three of the owner's friends in Australia, prosecutors said.
[I wonder if there would have been a legal precedent had this incident been video taped for commercial release with the model's written consent? lol]
AP - PONTIAC, Mich. - Prosecutors say Shuo-Shan Wang performed a castration on a kitchen table without a medical license.
The engineer from Taiwan, who is in the United States on a student visa, was arrested in June after a man began hemorrhaging outside his home following a voluntary castration.
Wang pleaded guilty in December to charges of practicing medicine without a license and dispensing prescription medicine without a license.
He withdrew his plea in February after an Oakland County judge said he would sentence the man to more than six months in jail.
Jury selection for Wang's trial was expected to begin Tuesday, The Detroit News reported.
The felony charge of practicing medicine without a license carries up to four years in prison upon conviction.
Wang's attorney, Steve Reina, has said his client doesn't deserve a harsh punishment because he has no prior criminal record and performed the castration on a Birmingham man who requested the procedure.
But Assistant Prosecutor Ken Frazee said consent is no defense.
"I think the jury will see pretty clearly you can't have people going around performing medical procedures without the proper licensing," he said.
Authorities say Wang operated at his home in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park. Afterward, he and the 48-year-old man shared some pie at the same table. Wang did not charge for the surgery.
The man was seeking the castration because he had a sexually transmitted disease and no longer wanted a sex drive, prosecutors have said. He found Wang while searching the Internet for someone to castrate him.
Wang told police he learned the skill from his grandparents. He performed his first surgery on a dog and then on the dog's owner and three of the owner's friends in Australia, prosecutors said.
[I wonder if there would have been a legal precedent had this incident been video taped for commercial release with the model's written consent? lol]
