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Sep 13, 8:05 AM EDT
Man Pleads Guilty in Genital Surgery Case
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A former church minister and Boy Scout leader who cut off another man's genitals in a makeshift gender reassignment surgery in a hotel room, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and practicing medicine without a license.
Jack Wayne Rogers, 59, of Fulton, Mo., admitted on Friday he performed the grisly operation about two years ago.
Circuit Judge Gary Oxenhandler followed the recommendation of prosecutors, sentencing Rogers to 17 years in prison for assault and seven years for the illegal surgery.
The prison time is to run concurrently with a 30-year sentence handed to Rogers in April after he pleaded guilty to child pornography and obscenity charges.
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Valerie Leftwich, Rogers' public defender, said she advised her client to plead guilty to avoid further prison time.
"He is getting concurrent time," she said. "If he had gone to trial, he very well could have gotten consecutive time."
Rogers was sent to prison for four months in 1992 on federal child pornography charges. He is still being investigated in the torture and killing of a Skidmore man.
Branson Kayne Perry, 20, disappeared in April 2001. A police search of Rogers' property turned up a necklace belonging to the man.
Rogers has denied killing Perry and has not been charged.
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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune,
http://www.columbiatribune.com
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