Overview

• Authorities arrested Paloma Yazmín Escobedo and Víctor Manuel Rosales on September 27 on accusations of falsifying documents, usurpation of profession, omission of care and cover-up.
• The state necropsy reports cerebral edema, hypoxic encephalopathy and bradycardia as the medical findings in the case.
• The girl's father says he never consented to the surgery, and he and a legal representative allege the mother participated in procedures without medical or nursing credentials.
• Mexico's plastic-surgeons' association AMCPER requested and enacted the provisional suspension of Víctor “R” during the investigation.
• Prosecutors are examining the authenticity of a COVID-19 diagnosis and reviewing prior malpractice complaints, while reports of multiple cosmetic procedures beyond breast augmentation have not been confirmed by authorities.