BBL: 14-Year-Old Girl Dies After Breast and Butt Enhancement Surgery
A 14-year-old girl, Paloma Nicole Arellano Escobedo, from Mexico, has died days after undergoing breast enlargement and a butt lift surgery without her father’s knowledge. Authorities are now investigating her mother’s plastic surgeon boyfriend for possible negligent homicide.
Paloma fell into a coma a week after the surgery, suffering from brain swelling and heart complications. She died Saturday at a hospital in Durango, according to El Siglo de Durango.
Her father, Carlos Arellano, said he was initially told she died from Covid-19 complications. But at her funeral, relatives pointed out changes to her body.
At the funeral, some relatives told me her breasts were larger than what she had before, and when I mentioned it to her mother, she told me it wasn’t true, that she didn’t know anything,” he told prosecutors, according to AZ Central.
Suspicious, Arellano asked his ex-wife’s relatives to leave the room so he could examine his daughter’s body with his mother, sister, and sister-in-law.
“Sure enough: she had breast implants. We have photographs of the implants and the scars. We immediately requested an autopsy,” he said in the complaint.
Arellano accused his ex-wife of approving the surgery, which was performed by her partner, a 45-year-old plastic surgeon identified as Víctor “N.” He also accused them of a “cover-up” and blamed them for his daughter’s death.
Mexican law does not set strict age limits for cosmetic surgery. However, procedures for minors typically require consent from both parents.
Durango Attorney General Yadira de la Garza Fragoso said investigators are focusing on the mother’s role. “We are investigating a probable lack of care on the part of the mother for placing a minor who was under her care and custody in risky situations,” she said, according to AZ Central.
The surgeon’s licence has been suspended. He faces a malpractice probe, and prosecutors say charges could escalate depending on the autopsy results.
“There could be a crime of negligent homicide, and probably medical-professional liability,” the attorney general said.
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