An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to two years in jail and 10 years and one month in prison for performing an illegal castration on a volunteer who wound up in the hospital, USA Today reports.
Bob Lee Allen, 54, was set to begin his trial this week, but accepted a plea deal on Aug. 31, and pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit unlicensed surgery, practicing medicine without a license, and attempted distribution of a psychedelic mushroom. Allen told the judge that taking the deal was in his best interest because “a jury might convict me.”
After meeting Allen on a website that featured a welcome note in its registration box, reading, “from theEunuchMaker and the EM Crew,” the victim, who was 28 at the time, flew from Virginia to Dallas in October. He was then driven to a cabin belonging to Allen and his husband, Thomas Evans Gates III, in southeast Oklahoma.
Under the guise of 15 years of experience, and a clientele of, at least, six other people, Allen performed the castration on Oct. 12 on what the victim described to investigators as a covered makeshift table inside the cabin. Gates assisted by handing his husband surgical tools.
The victim, who was awake for the entirety of the two-hour procedure, recalls Allen laughing after the procedure, and joking that he was going to eat the body parts. The volunteer was taken to the hospital the following day due to excessive bleeding. The couple was arrested on Oct. 15 when they tried to visit the victim.
Investigators later conducted a search of the cabin and discovered body parts in a plastic bag in a freezer.
Allen struck the plea deal after Gates came to an agreement of his own with prosecutors, which required him to testify against his husband. In addition to spending over a dozen years behind bars, Allen will also need to pay more than $5,000 in fines and other costs.
