A mother and daughter have been arrested in Texas for allegedly running an illegal butt injection operation.
The family duo were allegedly offering to give people the injection for $6,000. The Houston Police Department’s undercover operation led to them arresting 56-year-old Consuelo Dal Bo and her daughter, 18-year-old Isabella Dal Bo. Both were charged with unlawfully practicing medicine without a licence, and the mother was also charged with knowingly delivering a controlled substance.
The mother and daughter were at a short-term rental on Eastern Meadowlark Way in Houston, according to court records obtained by FOX 26. The station reported how the duo were met by undercover officers while they were offering the butt injections out of the rental.
An undercover officer went to the rental posing as a customer, court records show. There the two women planned to inject an unlabelled brown liquid into the officer’s posterior, thinking they were a customer. Court documents also show how the mother gave the undercover officer Xanax to relax before the butt injection.
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Officers seized several bags of injectables and medical supplies during the sting operation. Houston Police Department is encouraging anyone who believes they may have been a victim of the duo’s practices to come forwards.
It comes as a mum ended up in persistent pain when her faulty breast burst and has had to pay £11,000 for private surgery after experiencing a year-long wait for NHS treatment. Beth Hewson, 49, said she endured horrendous "stabbing pain" in her left breast when one of her 25-year-old Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) implants burst suddenly last year.
The products are made in France, and handed to approximately 50,000 British women, who were banned in 2010 after they were found to contain cheap non-medical silicon used in mattresses. In addition, it was discovered that they were prone to splitting, leaving those with ruptures worrying and experiencing uncomfortable symptoms. The NHS indicates that there is no evidence to indicate that burst PIP breast implants result in "serious health risks" for those affected.
However, Beth said she had no choice but to secure private treatment, because of the delays for corrective surgery whilst enduring months of "horrendous pain". She said: "It was just like a stabbing pain all the time."
When she had the surgery, which cost £3,500, she said there was no information about the future risks of the products. More than ten years later, PIP breast implants were removed from sale following investigations which found their nature to be flimsy, with poor-quality silicone gel.
The company was liquidated in 2010, and its founder Jean-Claude Mas was sentenced to four years in prison for fraud in 2013 and fined 75,000 (£64,290). But Transform Healthcare refused to take out Beth's implants for free at the time of these revelations, stating expert advice "did not recommend" their routine removal.