A former Mesa County gynecologist who dyed a patient’s vagina purple in what he called a “joke” has avoided jail time as part of a plea deal and will be allowed to continue practicing medicine.

Dr. Barry W. King, 58, on Friday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of harassment as part of a deferred judgment and sentence in connection with the incident, which involves his former employee who came to him for medical advice after growing concerned that her cancer was back. Under the deferred judgment and sentence negotiated by Mesa County prosecutor Sally Colloton and Denver-based defense attorney Kelly Page, King’s conviction will be dismissed if he doesn’t get into trouble in the next two years.

King’s victim on Friday told Mesa County Judge Michael Grattan that King’s case arose in early 2017, when he was still practicing medicine in Mesa County. The woman, a breast cancer survivor who years earlier had undergone a double mastectomy, said she grew worried when she found a lesion on her vagina.

Her own gynecologist had retired and she hadn’t yet found a new doctor. So she turned to King for help.

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