Fatal Butt Injection Lands Queens Woman With 8-Year Jail Sentence

GRAMERCY, NY — A Queens woman will spend up to eight years in prison for collaborating with a fake doctor on a black market butt injection that left a 31-year-old mother dead, according to Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Allison Spence, 46, was sentenced in Manhattan Criminal Court Thursday, according to the DA's office. Spence was involved in the unauthorized toxic tush injection at a phony Gramercy clinic that resulted in Latesha Bynum's death in July 2017.

Bynum began feeling dizzy and chest pains nearly two weeks after she received the fatal butt shot in a pseudo clinic on East 21st Street and First Avenue near Gramercy Park, according to the New York Post.

The Harlem mom was rushed to an area hospital when her condition worsened and she was pronounced brain dead two days before her birthday, according to the Post.

Spence, who pleaded guilty on March 7 to manslaughter and unauthorized practice of a profession, will serve between two and eight years in prison, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Spence's co-defendant Kevin Richardson, who was posing as a doctor, fled New York when he found out the deadly butt injections had killed Bynum, the Daily News reported at the time. The News also reported that Richardson had given several other women illegal injections.

Richardson was sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison last September after pleading guilty in May, the DA's office said.