Overview

• The Durango state prosecutor’s office secured a judicial order linking the mother, Paloma Yazmín N., and her partner, Víctor N., to criminal proceedings after the teen’s death following a cosmetic surgery.
• Authorities state the case centers on alleged omission of care, document forgery, and usurpation of profession tied to the circumstances of the procedure and its aftermath.
• Both defendants were detained on September 27 and remain in custody as the court set a three‑month period to close the investigation, with prosecutors seeking pretrial detention at Cereso 1 in Durango.
• Reports indicate the operation proceeded without the biological father’s consent, and the mother allegedly used a falsified COVID‑19 test to conceal the surgery from him.
• The death has intensified scrutiny of elective cosmetic procedures for minors in Mexico, with new proposals advanced to restrict or ban such surgeries.