A court in Modena, Italy, sentenced 52-year-old Brazilian transgender Pamela Andress to four years and eight months in prison for the death of 35-year-old Italian Samantha Migliore during a failed breast surgery in April this year.
Andress was found guilty of another felony, in this case, health professional abuse and neglect to provide assistance. The defendant had no medical training for the procedure.
The conviction came after the Brazilian defense reached an agreement to quickly end the case and was announced by a local court.
The case took place on April 21 of this year. Migliore was undergoing breast augmentation surgery at her home in Maranello, but began to feel unwell. Andress fled the scene, and the victim’s husband, Antonio Bevilacqua, took his wife to a local hospital “with the syringes still in her breasts.”
“He died in my arms within minutes,” Bevilacqua told local media. The Italian came to the hospital lifeless.
Andress only surrendered to police the next day, and the defense has always denied that her client was negligent in her behavior, saying she waited until the ambulance arrived – something that was denied by the court.
The autopsy showed that Migliore died of a pulmonary embolism caused by the introduction of silicon into the lungs.
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source: Noticias
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