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Fake Dr. Pleads Not Guilty In TG Mutilation Case
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)_ A man who posed as a doctor and nearly killed a transgendered woman in a botched castration has pleaded not guilty.
Doug Lenhart, 48, is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery._
The case has been bound over for trial, but no date was set. Lenhart is free on $25,000 bond.
The victim in the case, Catherine Watson, 45, told a preliminary hearing that she nearly bled to death from the Sept. 12 procedure.
She testified that she first realized she was transgendered when she was 6._ But, she said she was unable to afford the expensive therapy and surgery to transition and found Lenhart on the internet._
Watson said Lenhart told her he was a doctor,_ but not licensed in Pennsylvania, and had performed 23 other castrations. He said he charged $800 and she agreed to let him operate.
She_ told the court that the procedure was carried out on a dining room table in her suburban Pittsburgh home.
Watson said Lenhart was unable to stop the bleeding and she had to be taken to hospital.
"I don't want him to do this again," a weeping Watson told the court. "I don't think he's capable.''_
Police say Lenhart has no medical license for any state._
It is the second case of a botched castration involving a transgendered person in Pennsylvania._ A transgendered woman is serving an 11 year sentence in the castration death of her husband.__
Tammy Felbaum was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and the unauthorized practice of medicine in the February 2001 death of her husband, James Felbaum.
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)_ A man who posed as a doctor and nearly killed a transgendered woman in a botched castration has pleaded not guilty.
Doug Lenhart, 48, is charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery._
The case has been bound over for trial, but no date was set. Lenhart is free on $25,000 bond.
The victim in the case, Catherine Watson, 45, told a preliminary hearing that she nearly bled to death from the Sept. 12 procedure.
She testified that she first realized she was transgendered when she was 6._ But, she said she was unable to afford the expensive therapy and surgery to transition and found Lenhart on the internet._
Watson said Lenhart told her he was a doctor,_ but not licensed in Pennsylvania, and had performed 23 other castrations. He said he charged $800 and she agreed to let him operate.
She_ told the court that the procedure was carried out on a dining room table in her suburban Pittsburgh home.
Watson said Lenhart was unable to stop the bleeding and she had to be taken to hospital.
"I don't want him to do this again," a weeping Watson told the court. "I don't think he's capable.''_
Police say Lenhart has no medical license for any state._
It is the second case of a botched castration involving a transgendered person in Pennsylvania._ A transgendered woman is serving an 11 year sentence in the castration death of her husband.__
Tammy Felbaum was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and the unauthorized practice of medicine in the February 2001 death of her husband, James Felbaum.
