Cebu woman nabbed over botched butt enlargement on 2 women
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The police arrested on Wednesday a 56-year-old woman who posed as a physician and botched butt augmentation procedures on two women in Barangay (village) Kinasang-an, this city.
Gloria Rabor, 56, will be charged with illegal practice of medicine in violation of the Medical Act of 1959 and estafa in violation of Article 315 of the Revised Penal Code.
Chief Inspector Fermin Armendarez III, the team leader of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Central Visayas (CIDG-7), said Rabor failed to show documents to prove that she was a licensed medical doctor when they arrested her inside her house, which she used as a clinic.
Armendarez said that as a matter of procedure, they would still double check with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) if she was a licensed doctor.
The entrapment operation stemmed from the complaint filed by two women aged 34 and 37 from Bohol. The two women claimed that the suspect botched buttock augmentation procedures on them.
Rabor allegedly charged P60,000 each in professional fee for buttocks augmentation. She also asked P11,000 for the nose lift of one of the women. The buttocks augmentation, with the use of collagen, was performed in three sessions.
The two women — both married and who asked not to be named — told the CIDG that after the procedure, their buttocks became infected.
One of the women said that when they complained about the infection, Rabor only told them to apply alugbati (Malabar spinach) leaves on their buttocks.
Armendarez said Rabor reportedly advised the two women to take anti-bacterial medication.
The two women then went to the CIDG to complain, prompting the policemen to conduct an entrapment operation.
One of the two women went to Rabor’s clinic purportedly to pay the P7,000-remaining balance of her professional fee.
After the suspect accepted the money, the woman signaled to the policemen who entered the clinic and arrested Rabor.
The CIDG team seized from the clinic a substance believed to be collagen, some syringes, vials containing unidentified liquids, gloves, among others. They also recovered the marked money amounting to P1,500, along with sheets of paper cut into the size of money, used in the entrapment operation.
