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Fake doctor jailed for injecting women's buttocks with silicone and cement

Morris pleaded no contest to manslaughter and practicing medicine without a license following the death of Shatarka Nuby, 31, who died in federal prison in 2012 after receiving the injections.

Ron Oneal Morris, center, appears at a 2015 hearing in Fort Lauderdale
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O'Neal Morris, 36, had earlier been accused of injecting patients with a mixture of Fix-a-Flat, cement, silicone, mineral oil and Super Glue to give women butt injections ,the Washington Post reported.

The official cause of death was respiratory failure from “massive systemic silicone migration” from injections to Nuby’s buttocks and hips, the medical examiner said.

Morris, who was sentenced in a Broward County court, said that she and Nuby were close friends and told the court: 'I would never do that. So, please don't listen to the lies. Please do not listen to what they're reporting, because it's not.'

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She claimed that she never 'injected any human with any type of unknown substance.'

In statements to the judge, Nuby’s family and friends were emotional and even asked for a life sentence.

“There’s no closure. Putting in jail won’t bring her back,” Nuby’s aunt Juanita Nuby told CBS Miami. “This is a court of man, all you can do is put her away and teach her a lesson.”

Other alleged victims who were in the courtroom, also claimed that they became sick after Morris injected them with what they believed to be medical-grade silicone.

“You gave us your word that the products you was using was A-1 products. And come to find out they were not,” Kisha Jones said. “Maybe in the beginning, but greed really took over, because you was pocketing the money from every victim,” they said.

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According to an arrest affidavit, Morris injected Nuby about 10 times between 2007 and 2011.

Documents indicate that the first procedure cost $2,000, and was witnessed by a friend.

Nuby’s young daughter witnessed another injection, when she peeked behind the bathroom door.

The daughter said that Morris had a black suitcase with a needle and plastic wrap.

She added that Morris wrapped Nuby’s buttocks with the plastic wrap and poked her “in the butt with a needle.”

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The injections, other witnesses say, were sealed with cotton balls and superglue.

Other family members said Morris would wear scrubs and a stethoscope while performing the procedures.

Morris’s defense attorney, William Lanphear, however believes that “All parties share the responsibilities and the blame for their own actions and the role they played,”

“There was an assumption of risk obligation from the victims,” Lanphear told the Sun Sentinel.

Morris, who was born a man but identifies as a woman, will serve her sentence in a men's prison. Florida law does not make exceptions for transgender people.

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