beautician gets 15 years for injecting mazola oil into a client's butt...killing the client

[pepperbear]

SALINAS, California (AP) -- A former beautician who injected cooking oil into a woman's buttocks as an anti-aging treatment, killing the client, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Martha Mata Vasquez, 39, who pleaded no contest in October to involuntary manslaughter, practicing medicine without a license and fraud, apologized during Wednesday's sentencing hearing.

*snip*

This isn't funny because someone died, but Wow! A combination of greed and vanity! who'd a thunk it?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/18/cornoil.sentence.ap/index.html

[rinsd]

1. Shoulda used Wesson!

OK I am bad.

And I am very sorry someone lost thier life to this idiot.

[Ian David]

5. Cause of death: Wessonality?

It's a tragic waste of life, but still... there's a dark humor in there somewhere.

[rinsd]

14. Very dark..

I always sensed she was evil but wrote it off to an overactive imagination

[CrazyOrangeCat]

15. Very, very dark.

Can a Shake-n-Bake thread be far behind???

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. Dang . . . ya beat me to it.

Wessonality.

[Twillig]

10. Shoulda used EVOO!

I am worse.

[BattyDem]

2. Mazola Oil??

Why the f*ck would you allow a beautician to inject ANYTHING into your butt?! :shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

3. My guess is that she inadvertently hit a vein

during her injection causing a fat embolus.

[Warpy]

16. That was my guess, as well

and fat embolus is no joke. It travels through the heart and into the lung, cutting off blood supply and suffocating the person.

Best advice to the vain: peruse the websites of board certified cosmetic surgeons and find out what's involved in the surgery you're considering. Then make sure the the surgeon you've chosen is board certified and performing according to that standard of care.

Cheap, easy treatments that seem to good to be true can disfigure or kill you.

[951-Riverside]

4. Looks like she injected some into her own face

[The2ndWheel]

6. "an anti-aging treatment, killing the client"

Sounds fairly successful.

[Mandate My Ass]

9. *

:spray:

[Kookaburra]

8. Wrinkled butt?

I don't get it. Do you get wrinkles on your butt? That's one area that doesn't get a lot of "sun" time, so I would think it wouldn't have wrinkles or sun damage.

The tragedy of human life lost aside, and it is a tragedy, I have to say it sounds more like a Monty Python skit than a true story.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. yer right.

The M.P. crew missed a great skit . . .

[Mandate My Ass]

12. Cellulite causes a wrinkled/dimpled effect

Not pretty.

[pitohui]

17. as you age your butt dimples, more so if you are slim, of course

it is not true that all "wrinkling" is caused by sun damage, that is just something they tell young girls to sell them sunscreen

it's a normal part of peri-menopause and menopause

[Kookaburra]

21. Aha! That would explain my

inability to relate to this. The women in my family have never had the "slim butt" thing going for us (our centers of gravity are definitely our lower halves).

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

19. She might not have been worried about wrinkled butt,

but flat butt, the bane of the over 40 crowd.

[pitohui]

23. that would be treated by implants, requiring a surgeon

i accept the story as given, that the woman's concern was the dimples

[AndyA]

13. I am sorry that the woman died, but...really...come on...

who in their right mind is:

1. Going to go to a beautician for an anti-aging treatment? (Don't they normally just do hair, nails, makeup, hair removal, etc.?)

2. Allow someone - anyone - to inject cooking oil into their body?

3. Allow someone who looks like the beautician to be in charge of any procedure that's invasive? I mean, doing nails, plucking eyebrows, yes. Shooting fluids into your butt...NO!

People need to start thinking for a change. I'm sorry the woman died for her stupidity or her ill-placed trust, but good grief!

[Coventina]

18. Apparently she was lying, calling it a "French polymer"

So this woman's poor clients didn't know they were getting Mazola.

I got a flu shot a month ago. For all I know, it could have been Mazola as well. How am I to know?

:shrug:

[AndyA]

26. A French polymer.

I wonder how many people she's done this to?

When I get flu shots, it's always done by a medical doctor, with at least one nurse present, and usually more than one. Even when it's in an office building or something of that nature, it's always a doctor. I've always been under the impression that only certain people can dispense flu shots. Maybe it varies by state? :shrug:

[Coventina]

27. My point was that people put their trust in professionals.

Cosmetologists are licensed by the state, so if this woman had her license, why wouldn't the victim trust that she was telling the truth?

She did it to many clients. Another one was put in a coma.

[AndyA]

28. Wow - that's awful.

I would trust a doctor or nurse on a much higher level than I'd trust a cosmetologist, but I guess it depends on what's being done.

I'll bet her former clients felt a strong moment of reality when they realized what could have happened to them.

[pitohui]

22. many beauticians do anti-aging services these days

in the 80s and earlier they did only those services you mention

in the 90s and more recently there was a move for qualified cosmetologists, even if they are not doctors, to do such procedures as lunch time peels, once done only by dermatologists

i was annoyed to make an appt w. a derm, only to have his beautiful assistant (who looked about 16) do a procedure on my face involving chemicals -- all he did was step in and say "hi"

but that's the standard now, ask anyone who does lunch time peels

as far as a dimpled butt, your options are to gain weight (i have not been successful in this) or to sit down!, i'm not aware that there is much accepted help for cellulite or butt dimpling, some beauty treatments such as liposuction (which should always be done by a surgeon) will actually make butt dimpling worse

it's just hell getting old, i guess, but the poor patient shouldn't have died because of the beautician's lies

[AndyA]

25. Well, I don't normally go to beauticians...

But I would expect that anyone who is going to inject something into another human's body should have a degree, license, or something that says they know what they're doing.

I can't imagine how horrible this must have been for the woman. I hope it didn't last long.

[specimenfred1984]

20. Darn, that ruins all chances of the Cracker Barrel Cheese Injection

I was really looking forward to that!

[Botany]

24. The Clinic de la Cracker Barrel is still open