Nurse cuts off the leg of a dying man for an unbelievable reason
Hospice nurse Mary K. Brown of Wisconsin was supposed to protect a man who would spend his last days in her care, but she decided instead to cut off his foot for personal gain, leaving him in great agony and pain.
A US court has charged her with physical abuse of an elderly person, intentionally causing significant bodily harm, and causing disorder after amputating a patient's frostbitten foot without his or her doctor's permission.
It turns out that the nurse's goal in this outrageous act was to preserve the foot for display in her family's taxidermy shop.
According to a criminal complaint, the 38-year-old allegedly amputated the victim's right foot - without his or her doctor's permission on May 27 - and told a fellow nurse she intended to display it (in the store) with a sticker saying 'Put your shoes on, kids'.
The nurse who was present when Brown cut the man's foot on May 27 reported that the patient was pulling her hand tightly and moaning during the operation.
According to the complaint, the man told another nurse after the amputation that he felt everything and was in great pain.
The victim was admitted to the Valley Health and Rehab Center in Spring Valley in March with severe frostbite on both feet.
By the end of May, doctors were certain he was about to die, and witnesses said his foot was punctured and only dead skin and tendons attached to his leg.
For her part, Brown insisted that by cutting off his foot, she was acting with the best of intentions toward the man.
The nurse later told the police that she had cut off the man's foot in order to make him more comfortable because she said that was what she would have wanted if she had been in his place.
The newspaper "Daily Star" quoted the management of the rehabilitation and treatment center, confirming that Brown is no longer an employee at the facility.
Brown is expected to appear in court on December 6, and if convicted, the maximum sentence for each charge could be up to 40 years in prison.
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