Wisconsin Nurse that Amputated Patients Frostbitten Foot Without Permission Will Serve No Jail Time

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.

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