Community uproar after doctor dyes woman’s private area purple

The Mesa County court system had to settle an unusual matter recently. As it was reported earlier this week, the Colorado-based legal department dealt with a case where Dr. Barry W. King pled guilty to harassment, after reportedly dying a patient's vagina purple, in what deemed a "joke." Despite pleading guilty to the crime, the doctor will not be serving jail time as part of his plea, and he'll be allowed to continue practicing medicine in the state.

Here's what we know about the late October legal decision. As it was reported by The Daily Sentinel, a former employee came to Dr. Barry W. King in early 2017, when she became worried about her cancer returning. She is a breast cancer survivor, having a double mastectomy performed a few years earlier, and she was worried when she discovered a lesion located in her vagina. She went to Dr. King because her own gynecologist recently retired, and she was looking for another doctor to replace her previous one. The employee believed Dr. King may help, but he only made matters worse.

While Dr. Barry W. King seemed initially concerned about the patient's safety and well-being, the woman reportedly noticed something unusual when she was finished with her examination with the doctor. First, the doctor asked the patient to have her husband "look at it" once she got home, which the woman found unusual-- since Dr. King didn't know her husband particularly well, and the individual wasn't a doctor. Then, later that night, when the woman was using the bathroom, she noticed a streak of purple on a piece of toilet paper. The woman recognized it as gentian violet.
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 https://www.thepetitionsite.com/779/056/432/this-docto
 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6329907/Gynecologist
 https://jezebel.com/doctor-wont-face-jail-time-for-dyeing-patient
 https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/doc-keeps
 https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/29/colorado-doctor-dyed-vagina-purple/