Rikers Island captain Tandra Bowser-Williams dies after Brazilian butt lift from bogus doc Hector Cabral
An NYC Department of Correction captain died reportedly after touring to the Dominican Republic to obtain a Brazilian butt lift from a phony physician as soon as indicted for working with no medical license.
Tandra Bowser-Williams, a 49-year-old corrections captain at Rikers Island, suffered a large stroke simply days after jetting off to Santo Domingo to obtain a fats switch surgical procedure from plastic surgeon, Dr. Hector Cabral, on May 13, her husband, Curtis Williams, just lately recounted to N.Y. Daily News.
Cabral was beforehand indicted in March 2011 below former New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on 10 counts of working with no medical license and fraud and conspiracy fees.
He was accused of charging for consultations and medical examinations at med spas and sweetness parlors in New York earlier than luring unsuspecting sufferers with cut price costs to the Dominican Republic for low cost beauty surgical procedures, which in the end left many ladies completely disfigured.
Bowser-Williams’ husband mentioned his companion since 1996 was assured in Cabral’s skills regardless of his previous indictment.
“Her exact words to me were, ‘you’re gonna love Dr. Cabral’s work.’ I didn’t care one way or another. I accepted my wife the way she was,” he mentioned. “Everybody is distraught. She was the heart, the lifeline of the family. The heartbeat.”
The Daily News reported that Cabral in the end reduce a plea take care of prosecutors that assured no jail time. He was fined $5,000 and was ordered to pay $23,055 in restitution and full 250 hours of neighborhood service within the Dominican Republic, in line with the newspaper.
Cabral returned to Santo Domingo and opened Centro Internacional de Cirugia Plastica Avanzada, the place Bowser-Williams acquired her latest surgical procedure.
Her husband mentioned he acquired a name a day later from a nurse at United Hearts Clinic, the place she had been moved a couple of mile away after the process and in the end died earlier than Williams might arrive to the Caribbean in time to be by her facet.
In 2017, the New York City Department of Health warned of eight sufferers in New York City and two in Connecticut who returned from “lipo-tourism” journeys from the Dominican Republic with harmful bacterial infections and different critical signs together with stomach abscesses, ache, wound discharge, and fever. No deaths had been instantly reported in connection to these circumstances.
Daily News reported that Cabral’s clinic footed the invoice for Williams’ journey to the Dominican Republic, in addition to different prices associated to his spouse’s dying, together with paying the native funeral house to have her physique embalmed. The newspaper mentioned Bowser-Williams’ dying doesn’t look like below investigation.
“She was always a good captain, never tried to escape work, always worked in the jails, always worked with inmates,” Patrick Ferraiuolo, President of the Correction Captains union, instructed the newspaper. “It’s a real loss. She certainly didn’t deserve this. She was a trooper.”
