Calvin Barry is a Toronto-based criminal lawyer with over 16 years experience as a senior crown attorney at Calvin Barry Professional Corporation - Criminal Lawyers. Calvin Barry Lawyer Toronto has practiced in the area of Criminal Law and Regulatory Offenses since October of 2004, accruing over 30 years experience in criminal law.
Friday, February 20, 2015
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THE SOUTH BAYVIEW BULLDOG
Buttock silicone injections by caulking gun
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The story of the unlicensed injection of
silicone into women trying to enhance the look of their buttocks and thighs is
about as harrowing as they come. Marilyn Ely Reid, 48 (inset) injected nine
women -- in some cases using syringes attached to a caulking gun. Today she
pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in a tale that left some of the women
permanently injured. It is hard to imagine what any of them were thinking.
Except that our culture has thrown up some startling role models (lower inset).
It began in November 2012 when a 28-year-old woman fell ill after receiving
presumed Botox injections. Police said the woman underwent surgery to have the
substance removed. Reid advertised buttock, lip and muscle augmentations and
Botox injections on a website. Several other victims came forward after her
arrest. Her lawyer, Calvin Barry, said Monday, January 12, 2015 that several of
the women have had "serious health issues" ever since the procedure, which his
client was not licensed to perform. Reid administered the injections with
syringes, Calvin Barry said. One of the women is still unable to sit down, Barry
said. "The way it would work is she'd meet these people... at hotel rooms in the
GTA and Toronto and then what she would do is, they'd pay her thousands of
dollars and she'd inject them in the buttocks with a silicone-based ingredient,"
Barry said in a phone interview. "It's a little shady when it's happening in a
hotel room and cash currency is being passed, it's not like it's at a plastic
surgery...location," he said. "And so the victims kind of knew what they were
getting into, too, but they wanted to enhance their behinds with this Brazilian
butt enhancement and anyway, a lot of these women got seriously ill." Reid
pleaded guilty to eight counts of aggravated assault. She will be sentenced
February 27, 2015 with the Crown seeking a ten-year sentence.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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