{"id":310258,"date":"2026-07-30T23:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:02:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:02:50","slug":"bogus-queens-doc-sentenced-for-botched-butt-injection-that-killed-mom-of-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310258\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Queens doc sentenced for botched butt injection that killed mom of two"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bogus Queens doctor who admitted his botched butt implant procedure killed his patient, a mother of two,<\/a> last year was sentenced on Thursday to five to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Felipe Hoyos-Foronda pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge months after his patient, Mar\u00eda Paz Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera, 31, died following a bungled procedure<\/a> in Hoyos-Foronda\u2019s Astoria home.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera died weeks after she had a bad reaction to anesthesia she was administered ahead of the unauthorized procedure.<\/p>\n

\"FelipeFelipe Hoyos-Foronda is pictured during his sentencing Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Queens, New York. Mar\u00eda Paz Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera died after after a botched butt procedure by Hoyos-Foronda. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

After failing to revive her, Hoyos-Foronda fled the home and was captured hours later at John F. Kennedy Airport as he waited for a getaway flight to his native Colombia.<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera dreamed of becoming a beautician and sold tamales and empanadas in her Flushing neighborhood during summer months, relatives said.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s heartbroken husband, Theodore Paloumbas, watched along with grieving relatives as Hoyos-Foronda learned his fate Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day, I carry the pain of losing my wife while trying to be the best father I can be,\u201d he said in a victim\u2019s impact statement read by a prosecutor.<\/p>\n

\u201dI have to raise our son alone while grieving the woman we both love. There isn\u2019t a day that goes by that I don\u2019t think about what our lives should have been and everything she has missed. No sentence can bring my wife back. Nothing can replace the future that was stolen from her.\u201d<\/p>\n

A search of Hoyos-Foronda\u2019s car at the time found evidence of his illegal medical practice: a garbage bag with a bloody syringe, more used syringes, an empty bottle of lidocaine and empty bottles of human growth hormone and other medications, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\"Mar\u00edaMar\u00eda Paz Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera’s mother, Gladys Cabrera (left), and sister are pictured in Queens Supreme Court after Felipe Hoyos Foronda’s arraignment on Monday, April 28, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

While Hoyos-Foronda stood in an airport Starbucks line, Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera was suffering lidocaine toxicity, a condition that occurs when excessive amounts of the anesthetic enter the bloodstream, causing seizures, irregular heart rhythm, respiratory failure or cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

\"TheodoreTheodore Paloumbas, husband of Mar\u00eda Paz Pe\u00f1aloza Cabrera, is pictured at Queens Supreme Court on Monday, April 28, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

She died two weeks later after being removed from a ventilator. She had visited Hoyos-Foronda to have a problematic butt implant removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFelipe Hoyos-Foronda \u2013 who had no business practicing as a doctor or surgeon \u2013 ended the life of a young mother when he gave her a lethal dose of anesthesia and then attempted to flee the country,\u201d Queens DA Melissa Katz said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s sentence cannot undo this tragedy, but we hope it brings a measure of solace to Maria Penaloza\u2019s loved ones as they continue to grieve her senseless loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

The procedure was performed in a makeshift office<\/a> in Hoyos-Foronda\u2019s house on 35th St. near 20th Road, authorities said<\/p>\n

He was asked if he wanted to say anything before he was sentenced, but he declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bogus Queens doctor who admitted his botched butt implant procedure killed his patient, a mother of two,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-310258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}