Fake cosmetic doctor who injured five clients in Elche and Crevillent sentenced to two years in prison

A woman has been condemned to two years in jail by a criminal court in Elche for impersonating a doctor and carrying out various cosmetic medicine treatments throughout 2021 and 2022 without the proper qualifications. This phoney doctor has been convicted of five clients who suffered injuries from the conduct of this false doctor, with the procedures taking place in beauty and aesthetics clinics in Crevillent and Elche. The final sentence was handed down this week in Courtroom 2 of the Criminal Section of the Elche Court of First Instance after an agreement between the parties .

The verdict also punishes the defendant to a fine of 4,680 euros and orders the payment of a total of 30,280 euros in damages to the five wounded clients, who have acted as private prosecutors in the case through lawyer Raquel Sánchez Navarro in addition to the prison sentences.

The accused was convicted as the author of the ongoing crime of intrusion, the crime of falsification of a public, official or commercial document, two minor crimes of injury and three major crimes of injury.

Suspension of sentences, conditional

The president judge has decided to defer the prison sentences imposed on the defendant for two years, providing she commits no other offences in that period and pays the civil damages assessed. She has been given six months to pay the compensation, or her suspended sentence could be revoked.

According to the evidence, the defendant in the years 2021 and 2022 exercised at many centers of beauty and aesthetic medicine in Elche and Crevillente, in which she posed as a licensed physician before the clients, although not have a title of medicine. She utilised a falsified medical degree certificate to back up the lie . Either forged by herself or by someone she hired to forge it . The same is also the case with the convicted woman, who used medical products and medicines that need the usage of qualified medical experts. The court says these goods can be a health danger to her clients without adequate protections.

The court said in the verdict that he carried out treatments including mini-liposuction, subcision, Botox injections, hyaluronic acid, cryolipolysis and aesthetic treatments in several businesses, all of them in Elche and one in Crevillent.

The ruling further states that the defendant used professional information that did not belong to her to get injectable medicinal items. In one of the orders she gave a professional registration number, and in another she used the name of another doctor without authorisation to obtain goods intended for cosmetic treatments .

Five clients had injuries or permanent effects after getting treatments conducted by the defendant, the ruling said. In one case, a woman who was treated with hyaluronic acid in July 2021 had to go to Vinalopó Hospital with face swelling and oedema and was diagnosed with cellulitis and required antibiotic therapy, as well as sick leave.

A patient had bruising and darkening of her buttocks after a subcision treatment for cellulite. One third patient had a persistent change of colour in the under-eye area following hyaluronic acid filler with moderate cosmetic impairment scored at eight points.

Also covered is the example of a woman who developed painful nodules on both buttocks after treatment with hyaluronic acid and who, according to the forensic report, suffers from persistent agony, especially when sitting. The fifth woman treated had burns and linear hyperpigmentation on her belly following multiple sessions for the removal of stretch marks with plasma laser technology.

The phoney doctor confessed to her guilt in court last Monday for these acts and was sentenced to one year in jail for the continuous crime of practising medicine without a licence and another year in prison for document forgery, as well as various fines for the five offences of injury.

In terms of civil obligation, the corporation is to pay compensation to the victims from € 760 to € 11,680 and refund some of the monies spent for the treatments. In one of the cases, the clinic where the treatment was performed was ruled subsidiarily accountable and an insurance company was exonerated from the payment of civil obligation.