Mugai_hentaisha
02-05-2005, 09:49 AM
Hey people
i was just going over my headlines on Yahoo when I came across this article from Planet out......
Woman gets 5 years for silicone death
Fri Feb 4, 8:09 PM ET Community - Planet Out
Christopher Curtis, PlanetOut Network
SUMMARY: A court sentenced a transgender woman to five years in prison after she plead guilty for the death of a woman who suffered complications after a "pumping party."
A court sentenced a Georgia transgender woman to five years in prison on Monday after she plead guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of a woman who suffered complications after a "pumping party."
"Pumping parties" are underground events in which women -- many of them transgender -- pump industrial-grade silicone into each other to create more-feminine features. Unlike medical-grade silicone, industrial-grade silicone is not sterile, and it can leak and cause infections when injected.
Police believe Myasha Thomas injected the 23-year-old victim's face and chest with industrial-grade silicone on Dec. 10, 2003, in Albany, Ga. After the injection, the woman -- who was also transgender and whom police identify only by her birth name, Andre Jeter -- fell into a coma.
A month later Jeter died from multi-organ and respiratory failure.
Police arrested Thomas in March of 2004 along with accomplices. The Dougherty County Court listed her legal name as Stephen Thomas.
On the Thursday following Thomas' guilty plea, WALB-TV reported she had been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years probation for felony involuntary manslaughter.
Three women await trial on conspiracy charges. Chief Assistant District Attorney Greg Edwards told the Associated Press (AP) the three gave rides to the pumping parties and helped Thomas perform the injections. Thomas would return the favor by giving her accomplices free injections instead of charging her regular fee of $300 to $400.
Edwards told the AP on Friday that the plea was appropriate because there was no intent to kill.
Gwen Smith, a board member of Gender Education and Advocacy Inc., shared mixed emotions with the PlanetOut Network. "On one hand it's nice that the issue of silicone injection is being treated very severely. On the other hand I wonder if the sentence had to do with silicone injection or the gender expression of the person involved."
Mara Keisling, executive director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, did not believe Thomas' sentence would address the real problem facing transgender people.
"The whole silicone-pumping public-health problem is going to continue as long as transgender people face the kind of discrimination we face, the kind of poverty we face and the lack of health care we face. It's very, very dangerous, but it's obvious why it happens."
When the PlanetOut Network first reported the story last year, Dallas Denny, board member of Gender Education & Advocacy Inc., warned that silicone injections are not just a problem among transgender people.
"It happens a lot in Asian communities," she said. "It's becoming common with HIV (news - web sites)-positive gay men who are trying to reduce the appearance of sunken cheeks or a sunken chest. It's common in the drag community, and sex workers who are trying to improve their marketability."
Denny said that once the injection was performed, the silicone could migrate. "If someone gets it in their chest, it can move to their ankles." she explained.
"Removal is difficult," she said. "In terms of getting silicone out, several plastic surgeons have told me it's nearly impossible. Once you get it done, it permeates the tissue. You're pretty much stuck with it."
Are these people "stupid" or what? I would just "love" to here someone's take on this that has actually done this.
i was just going over my headlines on Yahoo when I came across this article from Planet out......
Woman gets 5 years for silicone death
Fri Feb 4, 8:09 PM ET Community - Planet Out
Christopher Curtis, PlanetOut Network
SUMMARY: A court sentenced a transgender woman to five years in prison after she plead guilty for the death of a woman who suffered complications after a "pumping party."
A court sentenced a Georgia transgender woman to five years in prison on Monday after she plead guilty to manslaughter charges in the death of a woman who suffered complications after a "pumping party."
"Pumping parties" are underground events in which women -- many of them transgender -- pump industrial-grade silicone into each other to create more-feminine features. Unlike medical-grade silicone, industrial-grade silicone is not sterile, and it can leak and cause infections when injected.
Police believe Myasha Thomas injected the 23-year-old victim's face and chest with industrial-grade silicone on Dec. 10, 2003, in Albany, Ga. After the injection, the woman -- who was also transgender and whom police identify only by her birth name, Andre Jeter -- fell into a coma.
A month later Jeter died from multi-organ and respiratory failure.
Police arrested Thomas in March of 2004 along with accomplices. The Dougherty County Court listed her legal name as Stephen Thomas.
On the Thursday following Thomas' guilty plea, WALB-TV reported she had been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years probation for felony involuntary manslaughter.
Three women await trial on conspiracy charges. Chief Assistant District Attorney Greg Edwards told the Associated Press (AP) the three gave rides to the pumping parties and helped Thomas perform the injections. Thomas would return the favor by giving her accomplices free injections instead of charging her regular fee of $300 to $400.
Edwards told the AP on Friday that the plea was appropriate because there was no intent to kill.
Gwen Smith, a board member of Gender Education and Advocacy Inc., shared mixed emotions with the PlanetOut Network. "On one hand it's nice that the issue of silicone injection is being treated very severely. On the other hand I wonder if the sentence had to do with silicone injection or the gender expression of the person involved."
Mara Keisling, executive director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, did not believe Thomas' sentence would address the real problem facing transgender people.
"The whole silicone-pumping public-health problem is going to continue as long as transgender people face the kind of discrimination we face, the kind of poverty we face and the lack of health care we face. It's very, very dangerous, but it's obvious why it happens."
When the PlanetOut Network first reported the story last year, Dallas Denny, board member of Gender Education & Advocacy Inc., warned that silicone injections are not just a problem among transgender people.
"It happens a lot in Asian communities," she said. "It's becoming common with HIV (news - web sites)-positive gay men who are trying to reduce the appearance of sunken cheeks or a sunken chest. It's common in the drag community, and sex workers who are trying to improve their marketability."
Denny said that once the injection was performed, the silicone could migrate. "If someone gets it in their chest, it can move to their ankles." she explained.
"Removal is difficult," she said. "In terms of getting silicone out, several plastic surgeons have told me it's nearly impossible. Once you get it done, it permeates the tissue. You're pretty much stuck with it."
Are these people "stupid" or what? I would just "love" to here someone's take on this that has actually done this.