Oklahoma Man Sentenced for Botched Illegal Castration Procedure

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.