A 28-year-old woman in New York has been charged with manslaughter and felony assault after attempting to perform an illegal bum lift operation on 22-year-old Tamara Blaine in a hotel room in Manhattan last year, according to the New York Daily News.
Blaine died after being injected with silicone and subsequently experiencing convulsions. It wasn’t ruled a homicide until October 2013, when the medical court examiners called it ‘a systemic silicone emboly due to a cosmetic silicone injection of the buttocks’. Basically, the silicone went into her veins and asphyxiated her.
Tamira Mobley paid for the hourly-rate hotel room with her credit card in July 2013, and two hours after checking in she called reception and asked them to call 911, as Blaine was having a seizure. She remained at the hotel until paramedics came, but left before police got to the scene. She was charged two days ago, and is being held on $100,000 bail.
Mobley called herself a cosmetologist, but was unlicensed. According to the New York Post, she had administered similar injections at a cost of $500 to $800 (£300 to £480 to Blaine at least three other times in June 2013, September 2013 and February 2013. Assistant District Attorney David Drucker said they expect to have more charges against Mobley - a grim indication, perhaps, of how many young women are seeking surgical means to get a bigger bum.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.