Saturday, September 5, 2009
Surgeon gives up and pays damages to Christiane Völling
Translation, Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder of OII
http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/surgeon-gives-up-and-pays-damages-to.html (http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/2009/09/surgeon-gives-up-and-pays-damages-to.html)
According to information from Christiane Völling, the surgeon, Prof. Dr. L. has given up and will not appeal the latest judgment after losing for the third time and he has already paid the damages! This is a victory from beginning to end for Christiane and her courageous lawyer, Georg Groth.
The payment [of damages] brought the "Hermtrial" which has been ongoing for over two years to a historic end more quickly than expected: for the first time ever in Germany a surgeon has been held accountable in a civil suit for non-consensual castration of an intersexed person - and the decision was upheld at all levels of the judicial system!