Washington prisons settle lost penis case

Associated Press • Published November 18, 2008

SEATTLE – A Mason County man who lost his penis to flesh-eating bacteria in prison has won a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.

The 61-year-old man, Charlie Manning, told The Seattle Times on Monday that he settled because he wants the ordeal to be over. The department said in a statement it settled to save the cost of litigation.

Manning was serving time in 2004 for threatening a neighbor. When he became ill at the Stafford Creek prison near Aberdeen it was diagnosed as a reaction to cold medicine.

By the time Manning was airlifted to a Seattle hospital with an internal abscess, doctors had to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region.

Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.

Awesome....that's all I can say. Thoughts?