Mother, Daughter Face Murder Charges After Illegal Butt Implant Procedure Kills Aspiring Social Media Star Karissa Rajpaul

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Two women look execution charges Monday successful transportation with an amerciable butt implant country that results successful the decease of an aspiring societal media star.

Libby Adame, 51, and Alicia Galaz, 23, were some arrested Aug. 5 successful Riverside. The brace are a mother-and-daughter squad who constabulary accidental person been performing these procedures for years and recruiting clients done Instagram.

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“These things are done by radical with nary training, there’s nary standards, there’s nary contingency if thing goes wrong,” LAPD Detective Robert Dinlocker said.

Police accidental 2 women performed an “outlaw buttocks augmentation procedure” connected 26-year-old Karissa Rajpaul of Encino connected Oct. 15, 2019. Neither pistillate has a aesculapian license, and the process was performed successful a non-medical facility, according to police. The process the women performed progressive injecting an uncontained, liquid silicone substance into the assemblage that tin participate the humor watercourse and make embolisms, LAPD officials said.

“Silicone is not meant to beryllium injected into the buttock oregon the breast, period. And the FDA says that,” integrative surgeon Dr. John Timothy Katzen said.

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The process had been Rajpaul’s 3rd with the 2 women.

Adame and Galaz called 911 to assistance Rajpaul, but constabulary accidental they fled the country without identifying themselves oregon telling the paramedics what happened truthful they would cognize however to dainty her, according to the LAPD. Rajpaul died successful an exigency country with doctors unaware of the silicone injection.

Rajpaul’s origin of decease was listed by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office arsenic a homicide owed to acute cardiopulmonary dysfunction and intramuscular/intravascular silicone injections.

Adame was released a time aft her apprehension aft posting $1 cardinal bail, and a tribunal day has not been scheduled for her case. Galaz, who was released connected enslaved 2 days aft her arrest, is scheduled to marque her archetypal tribunal quality connected Dec. 8.

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Investigators accidental Adame and Galaz person been performing these procedures retired of their location since astatine slightest 2012 and complaint astir $14,000 for 3 sessions. Other clients of Adame and Galaz person besides contacted constabulary to study they excessively are suffering from a scope of complications owed to the procedure. Anyone who believes they are a unfortunate oregon has much accusation astir the lawsuit tin interaction Valley Bureau Homicide detectives astatine (818) 374-9550.