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Black Madam Tied To 14 Butt-Injection Cases
Bail Set At $10Million

Updated: Thursday, 01 Mar 2012, 5:16 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 01 Mar 2012, 4:54 PM EST

PHILADELPHIA – The so-called Black Madam is behind bars, held on $10 million bail as police think she could be tied to 14 silicone-buttocks injection cases. Also, Fox 29 has learned one new case may have caused a coma.

Fox 29 has learned that Padge Windslowe is linked to a third incident where a woman who underwent a procedure fell into a coma in 2008.

On Thursday, Philadelphia police released a new mug shot of Windslowe. Police say she performed an illegal butt enhancement in February 2012, making a patient sick.

Windslowe is also a person of interest in the death of another woman for the same procedure in 2011, which became an international story.

And now, cops are investigating a dozen more cases.

The door was locked and no one would answer at the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s office when Fox 29 tried to get some answers from medical examiner Dr. Frederic Hellman on Thursday. Then county police told us to go.

Dr. Hellman has been studying the Feb. 2011 airport hotel death of Claudia Seye Aderotimi for over a year.

Investigators believe she died from silicone injections administered by Windslowe.

Dr. Hellman later told Fox 29 by phone he’s been waiting five months for FDA test results to determine if the Aderotimi case was a homicide.

On Wednesday night, Philadelphia detectives filed new charges against Windslowe for allegedly injecting a 23-year-old woman at a “pumping party” inside a Germantown home on Feb. 19th.

The woman was hospitalized for seven days.

Windslowe was arrested as she prepared an unknown liquid for another pumping party at the same home Wednesday night.

The charge for the event was anywhere from $700 to $1,800.

Fox 29 News has also learned that Burlington County N.J. detectives are investigating a third case where a 26-year-old woman was allegedly injected by Windslowe at a Mount Laurel, N.J., hotel in 2008.

She lapsed into a coma and has continuing medical problems. No charges have been filed yet in that case.

“We believe 14 people were injected by her with this unknown substance,” said Lt. John Walker, from Southwest Detectives

“Getting her off the street is huge for us because this type of procedure is dangerous.”

Windslowe is being held on $10 million bail for aggravated assault, simple assault and other crimes.

Sources tell Fox 29 that Dr. Hellman had had toxicology results since last July for Aderotimi. He continues to do more testing and review witness accounts and interviews.

He would not say when his investigation would be completed.

Windslowe’s attorney says he will appeal the $10 million bail.

DOG PAW CRIES FOR HELP – Writes letter detailing pains and beatings

SHELDON WILLIAMS, Staff Reporter
One week after Christopher ‘Dog Paw’ Linton was allegedly beaten severely by soldiers at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre (HARC) ,THE STAR has received letters written by him revealing his discomfort at the ill-treatment being reportedly meted out and his cry for help.
“My name is Christopher Linton. I need help!. I am a remandee at the HARC. I am located on SP11, which is guarded by soldiers and I am a victim of severe physical abuse! My brother was beaten to death in jail and I fear the same will happen to me”, is the opening paragraph of one of Linton’s letters, dated January 30.
In another letter to his girlfriend dated February 22, a day after the alleged beating took place, Linton complained of awaking with excruciating pain all over his body as a result of the prior assault.
“I woke up about six this morning with pain all over babe. I can’t open my mouth at this time, like I have a fractured jawbone. I need something published now. The left knee is damaged, and the right shoulder including my left rib cage even the middle finger on the left hand. Both jawbones are paining now,” Linton wrote.
Interestingly, Linton also made reference to the alleged assault on Leighton ‘Livity’ Coke which left him with injuries he described as greater than his own.
Coke’s head buss up
Linton wrote, “Coke’s head buss up and injuries all over. It’s cruelty that we are facing. I can’t even imagine what’s going to happen the next time. Jah Jah is a piece a man, them want send home to my family”.
He continued,” Right yah now I am shaking while writing this letter babe. I was planning on writing you a book, I started the 19 which was Sunday. This incident stirred up everything. I can’t even continue. I think it would have been better if I had died instead of this. It’s pure madness. Lord God have mercy on us”.
Meanwhile, Dianne Jobson, who is Linton’s attorney, told our news team that she observed that her client had stitches to wounds he had received while in custody.
Jobson explained that Linton had what appeared to be “stitches on his chin, cuts and so on to his back, his jaw was swollen and shoulder. You could see that he was beaten”.
Meanwhile, a statement from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has described the allegations made by the inmates as unwarranted.
Captain Basil Jarrett, JDF civil/military cooperation officer, remarked that, “The JDF is committed to continuing to secure these individuals in the interest of national security.”
Furthermore, “We are unswerving in our commitment to carry out our duties at HARC in the most effective, most professional and most impartial manner, and will not relent as we continue to curtail their efforts to influence the nefarious activities of their affiliated gangs,” he added.

GM settles with S.Africa apartheid victims

CAPE TOWN, March 1 | Thu Mar 1, 2012 8:19am EST
(Reuters) – U.S. car giant General Motors has agreed to pay a symbolic sum of up to $1.5 million to victims of South Africa’s apartheid-era government, who are suing it and another four companies for helping prop up the white-minority state.

South Africa’s Khulumani Support Group lodged a U.S. class action lawsuit a decade ago against more than 20 firms it accused of aiding and abetting human rights violations, including torture and extrajudicial killings, under apartheid.

Only five companies — General Motors, which has since filed for bankruptcy, Ford, Daimler, German defence group Rheinmetall and computer giant IBM — still stand accused.

“GM want to carry on with their business in South Africa and want to settle their scores and maintain good relations with the country’s people,” said Khulumani member Shirley Gunn, who was detained and tortured under the white-minority rule that ended in 1994.

“But we are very grateful and can seriously start to redress the legacy of apartheid.”

General Motors said the settlement was agreed by a trust set up after the company declared bankruptcy in 2009, and as such would be a lot less than $1.5 million.

The company also said the settlememt contained no admission of wrong-doing and stressed it had “adamantly opposed” apartheid.

However, Khulumani laywer Charles Abrahams said the payment to more than 20 Khulumani claimants should help their case against the remaining four companies.

“The fact that GM has made a without prejudice offer to our clients clearly indicates that they acknowledge liability of some sort,” Abrahams told Reuters.

“For us that is a significant step in corporate accountability and we hope it will stand us in good stead with our class action against Ford, Daimler, Rheinmetall and IBM.”

A number of U.S. Supreme Court justices have expressed scepticism over whether companies can be sued in the United States for alleged complicity in human rights abuses abroad.