Police question woman in buttocks injection death - Yahoo! News
PHILADELPHIA – Police questioned a New Jersey woman and were seeking a second person for questioning in the case of a London woman who died after receiving cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport.
Investigators issued a search warrant at the Bergen County, N.J., home of a woman they believe organized the appointment, Philadelphia police Lt. Ray Evers said Wednesday. She was questioned and unspecified evidence was seized from the residence but she was not arrested, he said.
Evers said police believe she acted as a coordinator of buttocks and hip enlargements for the victim and another woman, communicating with them overseas by e-mail, text messages and phone calls to set up the visit — their second in recent months.
"Our information tells us these girls were here in November and did receive treatment from the same individuals," Evers said. The second woman who was being sought for questioning "was the actual person who performed the enhancements," he said.
The victim, identified by the Delaware County medical examiner as Claudia Seye Aderotimi, 20, died at a hospital Monday after suffering from chest pains and breathing trouble. [...]
Okay, it's true that I have nothing against unnecessary cosmetic procedures for those who want them. I wouldn't even have an issue with having them covered by universal *health* care coverage, which should be there to ensure the health of individuals to the best of the ability of money to do so regardless of the kind of care or practitioner they choose. At the same time, I don't personally see the upside, unless you count the entertainment factor in some of the extremes to which some folks will go.
[ETA: That sounds horrible; this girl died and there's nothing funny or entertaining in that. But that's the point, is it really worth the risk? Sometimes, yeah, it is. Sometimes it's harder to live with or without something that can be surgically corrected than to choose a potential brush with death, and I can understand making that choice. Also, I can understand how in a society in which we're so prosperous that we can afford to be picky, we've got people who are good-lookin' and smart and good at stuff in such great numbers that even they can be had on the cheap (dime a dozen, so to speak, extraordinary as each of them is individually), so I can understand desperate bids to be among them. I just think we're all most beautiful when we are who we are. Even when who we are dictates that we change what we look like. :) I had braces myself, and I was thrilled when we got a dentist who understood how hard it was to take care of my teeth the way they were. Having them look nicer was a bonus, as was having relief from some of the chronic all those teeth crowding around in there created. Anyway, I'm sorry for this girl and her loved ones. That part is tragic.]
The 'beauty', so to speak, of it all is that in practicing on countless numbers of people who were perfectly decent-looking before they got 'done', plastic surgeons have been able to develop and perfect some extraordinary procedures that are greatly helpful to those who've suffered physically catastrophic injuries or who were born with genetic evolutions not conducive to whatever they, their social circle, and/or their society consider a successful life.
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