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A US woman who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a more curvaceous body.<\/p>\n
What she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tyre sealant, Florida police say.<\/p>\n
The suspect – who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman – apparently performed the surgery on herself, and investigators say she may have victimised others.<\/p>\n
Advertisement: Story continues below Oneal Ron Morris, 30, was arrested on Friday after a year on the run and has been charged with practising medicine without a licence with serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Police photos show Morris as a small-framed woman with bee-stung pouty lips, arched eyebrows, oversized hoop earrings – and a large backside. She was released from jail on bond.<\/p>\n
The victim, who is not being named due to medical privacy laws, paid $US700 for a series of injections in May 2010. She was referred to Morris by a friend.<\/p>\n
Morris injected some type of tube in several sites around her bottom, pumping it full of a toxic concoction. Morris reassured the woman when the pain became too intense, police said.<\/p>\n
Miami Gardens Police Sergeant Bill Bamford said Morris told the woman: “Oh don’t worry, you’ll be fine. We just keep injecting you with the stuff and it all works itself out.”<\/p>\n
Bamford said the victim was reluctant to come forward. She quickly went to two hospitals due to severe abdominal pain and infected sores on her buttocks accompanied by flu-like symptoms. But she left each time, too embarrassed to tell doctors what she’d done.<\/p>\n
Her mother eventually took her to another hospital, where alarmed doctors pressed her for information. They alerted the Department of Health.<\/p>\n
“The doctors knew no licenced physician in his right mind would ever do this,” Bamford said.<\/p>\n
The victim is still recovering from the surgery and says it’s too painful to work. She also has racked up numerous medical bills.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe there are other victims who may be too embarrassed to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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