Woman charged with performing deadly amateur butt lift
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A Rosedale woman
faces homicide charges for
allegedly performing a butt
enhancement procedure that
wound up killing a Maryland
woman, prosecutors
announced on Friday.
Donna Francis, 38, was
arraigned before the Queens
Criminal Court on charges of
criminally negligent homicide
and unauthorized practice
of a profession. She had been
extradited back to New York
after fleeing to London,
England, where she fought
extradition up until now. Her
last known address was on
Huxley Street in Rosedale.
Per the stipulations of
the extradition agreement,
Francis is being held in a
Suffolk County Correction
Facility and is due to return
to court on Sept. 27. If
convicted, Francis faces up
to a year in jail, pursuant to
the extradition order limiting
a sentence greater than
one year.
“The defendant is alleged
to have set up a temporary
medical practice in the
basement of a Far Rockaway
home with a massage table and
silicone gel purchased from
eBay,” said acting District
Attorney John M. Ryan. “The
victim in this case traveled
from Maryland with her
mother and $1,600 cash and
the hope of returning home
with the perfect figure. Sadly,
she never returned home. She
died as the defendant allegedly
pumped a clear liquid
substance into the woman’s
backside, causing her to go into
cardiac arrest. The defendant,
who fought extradition, now
faces prison time for these
alleged egregious actions.”
According to charges,
on May 30, 2015, a 34-yearold
woman and her mother
allegedly traveled from their
home in Suitland, Maryland
to Francis for a buttock
augmentation procedure in the
basement of a home on Dickens
Street in Far Rockaway.
Shortly after 6 p.m.
that same day, emergency
responders arrived at the
scene after the victim’s mother
called 911 and found the victim
lying face up at the bottom of
the stairs.
Photo: Shutterstock
The victim was rushed to
a nearby hospital, where she
was pronounced dead. The
medical examiner found that
the victim’s cause of death was
systemic silicone emboli. Any
silicone injected into a human
body must be encapsulated
to avoid free silicone from
entering the bloodstream and
causing an embolism.
Charges say that Francis,
who is not a licensed nurse or
physician, allegedly fled the
scene and would flee to London
the next day. Police executed
a court-authorized search
of another address used by
Francis, they allegedly found
syringes, a jug filled with a
clear liquid consistent with
silicone and an invoice with
the defendant’s name on it from
eBay for jugs of dimethicone, a
silicone-based product.
Reach reporter Emily
Davenport by email at
edavenport@qns.com or
by phone at (718) 260-2576.
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