Defendant Takes The Stand In Fatal Buttocks Enhancement Case
By Tony Hanson
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Padge Victoria Windslowe, charged with the death of a woman resulting from black market body enhancement, has taken the witness stand in her behalf and suggested the victim is to blame for her own death.
Windslowe has testified she wanted to do good, got great reviews on thousands of procedures.
But KYW's Tony Hanson reports Windslowe has contradicted testimony by prosecution witnesses on multiple issues.
Padge Victoria Windslowe has denied prosecution witness testimony that she told clients she was a physician's assistant or nurse practitioner. She says she told them she was trained by a nurse and she explained to the jury it was the same nurse who assisted in her sex change operation from male to female in 1994.
Windslowe has also disputed the facts surrounding the injection and death of Claudia Aderotimi. Windslowe says she learned after the procedure that Aderotimi had been drinking heavily earlier and she says Aderotimi complained of nothing more than a tickle in her throat afterward.
But prosecution witness' testimony claims Aderotimi had not been drinking and was in great distress had chest pains and trouble breathing and Windslowe left her telling her and others to call an ambulance if she got worse.
After a 911 call she was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced dead about eight hours later.
Windslowe will return to the stand in the morning. She still faces cross examination by the prosecution.