Whalesca Castillo, who posed as a surgeon when performing a fatal butt injection, was sentenced Feb. 22 to a four-to-eight year prison sentence by a Bronx County Supreme Court judge.
According to NBC 4, Castillo pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and another count of second-degree assault for two operations, one leaving a woman dead.
Despite having no medical license, and the shots being
illegal, Castillo injected the silicone shots into Lesbia Ayala’s buttocks and thighs in her Bronx residence in 2017. The 48-year-old Philadelphian later died after the procedure due to an embolism.“The defendant illegally injected the victim with a silicone substance for cosmetic purposes. Tragically, the injections killed the victim,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a statement.
“Ever since this happened, I have been regretting it so much. So ashamed for myself and for my family because that was not the way they raised me,” Castillo, 49, said at sentencing.
However, Castillo has been reprimanded by authorities before for illegally performing medical operations. She was caught for running an unofficial cosmetic clinic in 2012. Castillo was sentenced to prison for a year and fined $100,000, but evidently did not stop her, according to Law & Crime
.Ayala’s family believes the sentence is too lenient for the repeat offender,.
“Four years is not enough. I think that today was a great injustice to my sister to my family,” Vanessa, Ayala’s sister, said to reporters after the court ruling. “This is not the first time she did what she did. This was her third time. The last time resulted in my sister’s death. There’s no way that four years is justice.”
However, with this conviction, prosecutors hope this will end Castillo’s alleged decade of illegal silicone injections.
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