The late Paloma Escobedo
By agency reports
A 14-year-old girl has died just days after she had a breast job and butt lift without her father’s knowledge.
Paloma Escobedo died on Sept. 20, in a hospital in Durango, Mexico, after being in a coma with a swollen brain and heart problems.
The complications were from the secret surgery which she had a week earlier, according to local newspaper El Siglo de Durango.
Her mom’s plastic-surgeon boyfriend (last slide) is now under investigation for possible negligent homicide, according to reports.
The young teen’s dad, Carlos Arellano, was told that she had died from complications from Covid-19, only to find out that she’d actually had plastic surgery.
He said: “At the funeral, some relatives told me her breasts were larger than what she had before.
“When I mentioned it to her mother, she told me it wasn’t true, that she didn’t know anything,” the grieving dad told prosecutors.
He got his ex’s family to leave the room, so his mother, sister and sister-in-law could help him examine his daughter’s body.
“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 said his ex-wife had agreed to the surgery, which was carried out by her current partner, a 45-year-old plastic surgeon, who owned the practice.
He accused his ex and her new man of lying to him in a “cover-up,” directly blaming them for his daughter’s death.
While Mexico does not have specific age limits for plastic surgery, they are typically only given to those under 18 with both parents’ permission.
“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,” said Yadira de la Garza Fragoso, Durango Attorney General.
The surgeon has had his license suspended and is being investigated for malpractice and potentially more serious crimes depending on the final autopsy, which could take 10 days or more, the prosecutor said.
