Trial Continues For Montco Woman Charged With Performing Deadly, and Near Deadly, Cosmetic Procedures
By Tony Hanson
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As the murder trial continues for a Narberth, Pa. woman accused of causing the death of a client for whom she was providing buttocks-enhancing silicone injections, another alleged victim of the defendant testified today that similar butt injections landed her in the hospital for months.
The 33-year-old woman, Melissa Lisath of New York, testified that she had buttocks-enhancement injections by defendant Padge Victoria Windslowe in 2008, twice, and the second time was disastrous.
The defendant, Padge Victoria Windslowe, is on trial for aggravated assault against Lisath and for third-degree murder in the death of another woman, Claudia Aderotimi, in 2011.
Authorities allege that Windslowe has been performing these black-market cosmetic procedures, to the detriment of the recipients, for years.
Lisath testified that Windslowe said she was a nurse practioner and, after silicone was injected into her buttocks and thighs and sealed in with "crazy glue," she experienced shortness of breath. She says it got worse over the next day, she went into a coma, and was hospitalized for three months.
Liseth says she is still suffering and could only return to work a few months ago -- nearly 6½ years after the procedure.
A doctor has testified that in the case of the woman who died, she came into the hospital and said her pain was a "nine" on a scale of one to ten. Dr. Anthony Mazzeo said the patient was struggling to breathe and her condition quickly worsened. Despite all treatment, he testified, she died nine hours later.
