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FORT QU'APPELLE, Sask. (CP)-
A former professional chef who learned how to castrate farm animals as a boy was given a suspended sentence Thursday for removing the testicles of a man who wanted a sex change.
Gary Gillingwater, 57, apologized for his actions in provincial court after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully causing bodily harm.
Judge Kenn Bellerose imposed an 18- month suspended sentence and also prohibited Gillingwater from using the Internet, where he met his victim, although the judge conceded the procedure was "a consentual act" on the part of the complainant.
The 28-year-old victim, an Alberta man who cannot be named, used the Internet to research how to get a sex change and found a Florida site which directed him to Gillingwater in Saskatchewan, who went by the Web name Top Dog.
A former professional chef who learned how to castrate farm animals as a boy was given a suspended sentence Thursday for removing the testicles of a man who wanted a sex change.
Gary Gillingwater, 57, apologized for his actions in provincial court after he pleaded guilty to unlawfully causing bodily harm.
Judge Kenn Bellerose imposed an 18- month suspended sentence and also prohibited Gillingwater from using the Internet, where he met his victim, although the judge conceded the procedure was "a consentual act" on the part of the complainant.
The 28-year-old victim, an Alberta man who cannot be named, used the Internet to research how to get a sex change and found a Florida site which directed him to Gillingwater in Saskatchewan, who went by the Web name Top Dog.
