Girl, 14, dies after breast surgery, butt lift without her dad’s knowledge; mom’s plastic surgeon beau probed

New York Post ^ | Sep. 25, 2025 | Patrick Reilly

[nickcarraway]

A 14-year-old girl died just days after she had a boob job and butt lift without her father’s knowledge — with her mom’s plastic-surgeon boyfriend now under investigation for possible negligent homicide, according to reports.

Paloma Nicole Arellano Escobedo died Saturday in a hospital in Durango, Mexico, after being in a coma with a swollen brain and heart problems following the secret surgery a week earlier, according to local newspaper El Siglo de Durango. “At the funeral, some relatives told me her breasts were larger than what she had before, and when I mentioned it to her mother, she told me it wasn’t true, that she didn’t know anything,” the grieving dad told prosecutors, according to AZ Central.

He got his ex’s family to leave the room, so his mother, sister and sister-in-law could help him examine his daughter’s body. “Sure enough: she had breast implants. We have photographs of the implants and the scars. We immediately requested an autopsy,” he said in the complaint. Arellano said his ex-wife had agreed to the surgery, which was carried out by her current partner, a 45-year-old plastic surgeon only identified as Víctor “N,” who owned the practice. The young teen’s dad, Carlos Arellano, was told she had died from complications from Covid-19 — only finding out that she’d actually had plastic surgery when saying his final goodbyes.

[Gene Eric]

predators

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I lived in Boca Raton for years, and at one point, about 10-12 years ago, a girl who was graduating from high school was treated to a pair of breast implants as a graduation gift from her parents. The surgery was performed at a regional operating amphitheater facility, a type of facility that has become quite common. The plastic surgeon never got to start the surgery, because the girl had an unusual reaction at the start of anesthesia. Something that happens about once in every 25,000 patients: there is an antidote, a treatment that can be injected quickly when this condition appears. The surgical center had the material on hand. But it had exceeded its shelf life and was no longer effective.

Of course, the parents sued everybody and their brother. The resulting settlement was confidential. Someone should have sued the parents for ever thinking of giving that to their daughter as a "gift".

[CaptainK]

Just from the headline I thought it would be in Mexico or Brazil

[Gene Eric]

>> the parents sued everybody and their brother.

makes it easier to avoid taking responsibility for the “gift”