Death From Plastic Surgery

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Mother of two daughters dies after receiving toxic injections in the buttocks with the intention of increasing their size.

Latesha Bynum, 31, received the implants on July 15 from a person the police suspect was pretending to be a plastic surgeon. That same afternoon Bynum called 911 to report that she felt very dizzy and had severe chest pains. Shortly after arriving at the hospital, she fell into a coma and the doctors announced that she was brain dead.

"After the procedure, there was something wrong with my sister," her brother Tymel told CBS. “He went to the hospital and couldn't breathe, and whatever it was inside him went to his head. She had brain death and zero chance of improvement.”

ABC7 reports that Bynum went to an apartment in a residential building, rather than to a surgeon's professional office, to receive the implants. But the brother says the doctors were licensed, and CBS reports that Bynum had previously operated on them.

"They killed my sister," says Tymel.

“This happens, unfortunately, several times a year, when we have these types of surgeries that end badly. These are not doctors. They shouldn't be doing this, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said in a press release. “We found surgical instruments that indicate that some type of surgery was done and we also found drugs such as lidocaine. We feel like this is what happened

- it was botched plastic surgery. They gave him some injections.”

After spending twelve days in the hospital, Latesha's family decided to disconnect her from the team that was keeping her alive and she died shortly thereafter.

He is survived by his two daughters, ages 13 and 8.