3 charged in castrations in Haywood ‘dungeon’

“At least six men traveled from across the nation and abroad to learn ’slave training’ and have their genitals mutilated by a man they called ‘Master Rick’ in a sadomasochistic dungeon… Haywood County authorities said Friday the men were castrated during eight illegal surgeries at a home on Peace Mountain Road in the Allens Creek community… Investigators used the informant’s information to gain a search warrant Wednesday, and found inside the house grizzly evidence of homemade surgeries. In the first-floor room called the dungeon, they found a coffee can with bloody scalpels, a silver tin marked ‘used instruments,’ intravenous supplies, syringes, needles, bandages, an electric shock paddle and a video camera and tripod. In another first-floor room, the investigators found a Physician’s Desk Reference book along with stacks of CDs and a computer. An invoice for lidocaine, topical pain relief medicine, was in the kitchen. A plastic container in a freezer contained what one of the suspects said was human testicles. The equipment, according to court papers, was used for removing testicles in castrations and at least one penis removal. The informant told investigators a man from Chile had his testicles replace with artificial ones called ‘neuticles.’ He later traveled back to the house to have them removed because ‘they were too large.’ DVDs discovered listed Peace Mountain Enterprises as the production company and surgeries performed by ‘Master Rick…’ Court papers and the sheriff said the surgeries were done for sexual gratification, though some experts said that would be rare.” — Citizen Times (US)

Here are pictures of the three perps: Michael Mendez, Danny Carrol Reeves, and Richard Peter Sciara (aka “Master Rick”). Googling “Master Rick” eventually turned up this photo from an S&M personals site. You think this matches the mugshot of Mr. Sciara? If so, it reveals the perp’s email address and enables you to come up with more personal ads that he placed around the net. There’s this one, which seeks out a “a permanent sex and pain slave.” The ad notes that “slave’s body would be modified to fit the image master has of a naked slave/dog kneeling at his side, including tattoos, piercings, shaving and branding.” It doesn’t mention castration. Perhaps that would scare people off?

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The below is from Backstage at Newza da Weird
Friday, April 07, 2006

Get ready for a rash of stories on apotemnophilia? Ever since that rural North Carolina voluntary castration den was uncovered [Backstage, 4-1-2006], Yr Editor has been waiting for the nation’s editors to accept the invitation to titillate. ABC News just found one apotemno (though I guess the medico-journalistic term now will be someone who suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder) who decided her legs had to go but did the research and killed them first with dry ice, which is less messy than blasting them with a shotgun. Medical conclusion, still, as always: We don’t know why they do it.

I am at a loss for words on this one... other then WHY I posted this... Haywood County is very close to Asheville... LOL