A doctor whose license was suspended 22 years ago for performing
shoddy sex-change operations was convicted of second-degree
murder in the death of a man who had a healthy leg amputated
to satisfy a sexual fetish.

John Ronald Brown, 77, could face
life imprisonment after he amputated the leg of Philip Bondy.

Bondy died of gangrene poisoning in a suburban San Diego hotel
two days later.

Bondy contacted Brown as a last resort to
fulfill a lifelong desire to amputate a leg because of a fetish
known as apotemnophilia, getting sexual gratification from the
removal of a limb.

Prosecutor Stacy Running said Brown "just
chopped off" Bondy's leg below the knee and then dumped him at
a hotel while he buried the leg in the desert.

Bondy called
Brown the next day, complaining that he was bleeding and oozing
from the stump, Running said.

Brown returned to the hotel,
rewrapped the leg and suggested Bondy take more pain killers.