Manslaughter charge for castration death

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Wife guilty after home castration

From AP

15dec01

A TRANSSEXUAL woman whose husband died days after a crude castration in their US trailer home has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

Tammy Felbaum, 43, had testified that she awoke from a drug-induced sleep to find James Felbaum had castrated himself.

"I couldn't believe it," she said of her sixth husband.

She said James Felbaum, 40, wanted to prove he wouldn't cheat on her and said: "Here, don't ever tell me I don't love you again."

Prosecutors, however, said she performed the crude operation in Butler, Pennsylvania, last February.

They argued that Felbaum died from the pain and the affects of the painkiller, OxyContin.

Coroner Cyril Wecht however determined Felbaum choked to death on his own vomit, and said the castration did not lead directly to his death.

The castration was performed on a Thursday and Felbaum died the following Sunday, court records show.

Tammy Felbaum had told authorities she performed a similar operation on herself when she was 21 and later had a sex change operation.

She was also found guilty of aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unauthorised practice of medicine.

Sentencing is on February 27.

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