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Man charged in voluntary castration case
Friday, August 23, 2002
By MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A Taiwanese national living in Oak Park faces charges related to voluntary castrating a Birmingham man who bled uncontrollably after the procedure was performed in June.
Shuo-Shan Wang, 29,
tluvpain (imported) wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2002 12:24 pm was to be arraigned today in Oak Park District Court on one coun
and unlawfully dispensing a prescription drug. The medical charge is a felony carrying up to four years in prison, while the drug charge is a 90-day misdemeanor.
Oakland County prosecutors said the 48-year-old Birmingham man who underwent the operation on Wang's kitchen table had contacted the would-be surgeon on the Internet. Wang told police he had performed castrations on other men in Michigan and in a former home in Australia.
Both men said they were eating pie after the procedure when the castrated man began laughing - and then bleeding, which couldn't be stopped.
Prosecutors said a neighbor notified authorities, who found the man sitting in blood-soaked jeans on a curb on Northfield Street. Police later found two testicles in a container in Wang's refrigerator.
Psychiatry experts say that such incidents are are, but some men want to be castrated for erotic reasons, and there are Web sites devoted to the subject. Other reasons include gender-identity disorders and compulsive feelings that genitals are dirty.
Oakland County deputy prosecutor Jim Halushka said the Birmingham man might have bled to death had the neighbor not called police. The m
ovidence Hospital in Southfield.
``The whole purpose of the statut
is really illustrated in this case,'' Halushka said. Wang ``doesn't have a license. He's not equipped to handle a problem when it arises.''
Halushka said Wang has overstayed a student visa by more than year, and immigration authorities have been notified of his status.
It wasn't clear Friday whether Wang had an attorney. He couldn't be reached immediately for comment.