Dr. Barry W. King (pictured) plead guilty to harassment after dying his colleague's vagina purple during an exam in an attempt to prank her husband

A gynecologist who formerly practiced in Colorado is able to keep his license after he dyed his colleague's vagina purple in an apparent attempt to prank her husband.

Dr. Barry W. King, 58, plead guilty on Friday to misdemeanor harassment as part of the plea deal after his employee, who was concerned her cancer was returning, went to him for medical advice and an examination in 2017, and left with her privates dyed purple.

King's victim told a Mesa County judge that she was a breast cancer survivor who two-years-earlier had a double mastectomy, according to the Daily Sentinel. She was worried her cancer was returning after she found a lesion on her vagina.

Her regular OB/GYN had retired, and she hadn't found a new doctor. The concerned woman decided to ask her boss, Dr. King, at Colorado West WomanCare of the Grand Valley, for help- he agreed to give her an exam.

'It's really difficult as a woman to see an OB/GYN doctor. You're in a really vulnerable position,' the woman told Mesa County Judge Michael Grattan.

Dr. King was practicing at Colorado West WomanCare of the Grand Valley (left), when he dyed her vagina with gentian violet (right) in an attempt to prank her husband

'There was a level of comfort because I did believe he was my friend.'

But then, at the end of the exam, she recalled that Dr. King said something odd.

'He said, ''When you get home tonight, I want you to have (your husband) take a look at it,'' she said.

She explained to Grattan that her husband was not a doctor and that King did not know him very well.

When she went home and used the bathroom, she noticed the toilet paper was purple.

She told the judge that she recognized it as an antiquated treatment known as gentian violet, which is a dye used to treat different medical conditions like yeast infections and thrush, but that she hadn't heard of it being used in years.

The woman assumed since she was working on the administrative side of King's practice that perhaps she wasn't up to speed treatments being used currently.

When she came to work the next day, King's behavior was off. She says he was acting giddy, and then finally, he confessed to what he had done.

King told the woman 'It was a joke. It was a joke for (my husband).'

To make the situation all the more horrendous, as the day wore on she realized King told several other people in the office what he had done to her. She said to Judge Grattan that she considered him sharing what he did a violation of her privacy rights as well.

She told the judge she believes King had a bigger end goal to his 'prank.'

She said she believes Kig was hoping she and her husband would have had sex with the purple dye still on her genital area.

'I was sexually objectified as a prank on my husband in hopes that his penis would be stained purple,' she told Grattan. 'That's disgusting.'

She said she didn't want to report Dr. King because she 'didn't want to ruin his life.'

'I was just going to get another job and leave, like most victims do,' she added.

While police were initially investigating this as a sexual assault, they were ultimately unable to prove any sexual intent, so they were only able to charge him with harassment.

'That's why we're here with the class three misdemeanor,' the victim told Grattan. 'Because I cannot attest to the status of his penis.'

King agreed to the plea deal on Friday which allowed him to keep his medical license. He has to perform 100 hours of public service and write an apology letter to the victim , as well as give $500 to the Western Slope Center for Children.

The woman said the experience has been 'really horrific and humiliating.'

She also says that the ordeal cost her socially when people both she and the doctor knew started taking sides.

She called King's behavior akin to 'a frat boy playing a prank and hazing me.'

'I want to know where Dr. King's moral compass went,' she said.

Grattan, while accepting the plea agreement, called the deal 'amazing,' adding 'But, oh my God,' Grattan said.

'Maybe it's as mature as a frat boy,' Grattan said, echoing the victim's statement. 'You can't be doing this stuff.'