Overview

• A control judge in Durango formally linked Paloma Jazmín N. and Víctor Manuel N. to criminal proceedings after a private hearing.
• Both were placed in preventive detention at CERESO No. 1 as the investigation proceeds on a three-month timetable.
• The mother is accused of omission of care and usurpation of profession, while the stepfather faces complicity, abandonment and improper medical practice.
• Health authorities confirmed the COVID-19 test used to conceal the procedure from the father was falsified, and the plastic-surgery society AMCPER suspended the doctor involved.
• Investigators say the surgery occurred on September 12 without the father’s consent and the teen died on September 20 after complications, with possible homicide charges pending forensic results.