[News] [PA, USA] Dancer: $1,000 buttocks enhancement damaged lungs

[Stephanie Stevens]

The Associated Press, USA


[5/16/2012]

Dancer: $1,000 buttocks enhancement damaged lungs

By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press


PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia woman dubbed "the Black Madam" used
silicone from Thailand and Krazy Glue to perform at-home cosmetic
surgery that left an exotic dancer with a plump derriere — and
potentially deadly complications, the dancer testified Wednesday.

Padge Windslowe charged $1,000 to perform injections on a dining room
table at "pumping parties," 23-year-old Shurkia King testified. But
King suffered severe respiratory problems afterward and spent two
weeks in the hospital. A doctor testified that he found silicone
particles on her lungs that could have killed her.

A judge Wednesday order Windslowe, 42, to stand trial on charges that
include aggravated assault, practicing medicine without a license and
theft by deception.

Police believe Windslowe also injected 20-year-old London tourist
Claudia Aderotimi, who died last year after a pumping party at a
Philadelphia airport hotel. Aderotimi complained of chest pain and
difficulty breathing following the procedure. No charges have been
filed in that case as detectives await extensive autopsy test results.

King heard about the London woman's death on the news and asked
Windslowe about it, King said.

"She said she didn't kill the girl, (that) she was high," King said.

Windslowe, who wore a sleek black outfit to court, did not testify at
the hearing and showed little outward reaction to the testimony. She
remains in jail on $750,000 bail.

Philadelphia police believe she has performed at least 14 cosmetic
surgeries, moving locations to avoid detection.

King, slender and modestly dressed, described the defendant's
technique in her hour-long testimony. She said she learned about
Windslowe through fellow dancers. She said she thought Windslowe was a
nurse.

King first had the procedure done at a friend's house on New Year's
Eve. All went well, so she went back for more in February, she said.
She and four others waited upstairs, while one-by-one the women went
down for the five-minute injections, King testified.

King said the needles looked clean, although she found it odd that the
silicone was in a water bottle. As before, she got four injections
that added a cup of silicone to her buttocks. But one of the
injections seemed to go in wrong, and left her leg shaking, she said.

"She (Windslowe) said, 'Just breathe. It's OK. It's OK,'" King said.

King's oxygen level was "dangerously low" when she arrived at a
hospital two days later, a doctor testified. She spent about a week in
intensive care and used an oxygen tank to breathe until two weeks ago,
when she returned to work, the doctor and King both testified.

The silicone particles attached to her lungs are diffuse and too small
to remove surgically, Dr. Arka Banerjee of Lankenau Medical Center
testified.

On cross-examination, the doctor acknowledged that medical records
show King to be a daily smoker and marijuana user.

A prosecutor asked if she could live a normal life.

"It's possible. If she gets an illness, maybe not," Banerjee said.

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