Posted on 07/13/2025 1:23:58 PM PDT by DFG
A Wisconsin nurse who amputated a patient’s frostbitten foot without authorization and planned to use it as a ghoulish display in her family’s taxidermy shop was given a sweetheart plea deal in which she’ll serve no time in prison and pay just $443 in court costs.
Mary K. Brown, 40, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of negligently abusing a 62-year-old patient at Spring Valley Senior Living and Healthcare Campus in 2022 for the rogue surgical procedure.
The patient died days later, though no definitive link was made between his death and the amputation, according to a criminal complaint.
She was initially charged with intentionally causing great bodily harm and mayhem and physically abusing an elder person, but the felonies, which could have each carried a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, were dismissed after pleading guilty to lesser charges.
The victim, Doug McFarland, was being treated for severe frostbite in both feet after suffering a fall in his home. His feet had become necrotic — remaining attached to his leg by only a tendon and two inches of skin — and he was moved to hospice care, according to KSTP.
After cutting off his right foot — which she referred to as “mummy feet” — she told nursing home colleagues she planned to preserve the foot and display it in a taxidermy shop owned by her family as a graphic warning about the dangers of frostbite.
She planned to display a sign with the foot that said, “Wear your boots, kids,” according to the charges.
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Despicable.
You didn’t chop his finger off though, did you?
Classic pu$$y pass. The bury a white guy under the jail.
She probably loves fava beans and Chianti.
They walk among us.
“What’s the world coming to?”
I never heard of the comedy movie ‘The Big Bus’.
Looks like good Old School comedy.
The foot was necrotic (dead) and held to the leg by one tendon and few inches of skin.
The hospice nurse isn’t qualified to amputate anything….
Who was the hospice physician?
Where was he between the time he “fell from his home” and he was put in a care center on hospice??
Did he go to ER after fall? Did any physician see him immediately after the fall?
He wasn’t on hospice before he fell.
Something doesn’t make sense here.
Ed gein didn’t kill anybody that I’m aware of.
He dug up dead women and cut up their skin to make clothes and furniture
bttt
Ed Gein confessed to two killings and suspected on several more.
Hopefully, the poor indigent guy has relatives who will exact more appropriate justice...
I see that. Looks like I spoke too soon, and stand corrected
Just when you think there is no Blue State that can enact a a more completely inane ruling like this, one of them proves you wrong.
Yep, I read that.
Misery
Trust me...Wisconsin is loaded with potential Ed Geins/Jeffrey Dahmers. I don’t know what it is...it’s a beautuful generally well run state but the populace tends to be on the squirrely side.
Should be death penalty.
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