Police arrest fake doctor after botched butt injections
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BY JENNIFER LEBOVICH
JLEBOVICH@MIAMIHERALD.COM
A woman's nightmare began after Ana Josefa Sevilla, saying she was a doctor, promised her she would make her butt look ``perfect.''
But police say Sevilla was no doctor and that her botched butt augmentation had serious consequences -- the victim had to be hospitalized for two weeks and could have lost her leg.
Miami police arrested Sevilla, 54, for practicing or attempting to practice medicine without a license and unlicensed practice of a health care profession.
Police say Sevilla met the woman last year in the parking lot of a health spa. The woman told Sevilla she wasn't happy with how she looked. Sevilla had this promise: ``I can fix it,'' the police report said.
She gave the woman a flyer about buttocks augmentation using injections.
Sevilla said she was a licensed doctor working for a health spa and that she had moved from Los Angeles to work in Miami.
Sevilla and the woman met two more times. At one point, Sevilla was wearing a ``doctor's uniform,'' the report said.
The woman paid $1,100 for the procedure and set a date to come back.
From the start, the procedure went awry, police said.
The first injection, Sevilla said, would be anesthesia. But the woman told authorities she felt everything throughout the procedure.
As Sevilla continued with the injections, the woman told police she ``felt a horrible pain and passed out,'' the report said.
After, the woman felt disoriented. She went for medical help.
Doctors told her ``she could `lose her leg or life' if she was not treated right away,'' the report said.
The woman had to have surgery and was in the hospital for two weeks.
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