Instagram model destroys eyes in cosmetic surgery gone wrong – changing eye color from brown to light grey
Nadinne Bruna, a 32-year-old Instagram model who has more than a million followers, has the eyesight of a 90-year-old after undergoing a controversial procedure: She had silicone implanted in her peepers to change her eye color from brown to light gray.
“Before this surgery, my eyes were completely healthy,” Bruna, who’s based in Miami, tells South West News Service. “My pupils, they can’t adjust to light anymore, so I’m very photosensitive now too. This surgery completely f–ked up my life.”
Retinal implants are illegal to perform in the United States and not approved by the FDA. Ophthalmologists say that they can cause irreparable damage.
“The implants interfere with normal fluid leaving the eyes, which causes scarring, increases pressure and damages the nerves permanently,” Dr. Richard Rose, retina surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, tells The Post. And he’s heard of Americans going to Central and South America to have the procedure. “There are definitely some patients I’ve seen that do OK with them, but I’ve also seen some real disasters.”
It was a risk that Bruna was willing to take. In September 2016, she flew to Bogota, Colombia, to have the procedure, where she was charged a discounted rate of $3,000 in exchange for posting her results on Instagram.
But the procedure damaged her optic nerves, and she ended up with glaucoma, an incurable eye condition that can gradually cause blindness. On top of that, her eyes were constantly red and itchy for a year, and she had to stop booking modeling jobs because of her condition.
“I make most of my money through my Instagram account and I couldn’t do photo shoots,” she says. “I’ve been living on my savings.”
She had the implants removed in Miami in September, but the damage was already done.
“Nadinne’s eye problems are something she will have to deal with for the rest of her life. She’s never going to be done with it,” ophthalmologist Dr. Ranya Habash, who performed the implant-removal surgery on Bruna at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, tells the Daily Mail.
Dr. Eugenio Cabrera, the Colombian doctor who performed the surgery, did not comment on the procedure.
If you want to switch up your eye color without destroying your vision, Rose suggests colored contact lenses.
“They’re safe, approved and you can take them out,” Rose says.
Ultimately, the surgical nightmare was a learning moment for Bruna.
“I was completely stupid. I trusted the wrong person,” she says. “I don’t think surgeries are bad. I just didn’t know the risks and I made a mistake by not doing my research.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/04/12/instagram-model-destroys-eyes-in-cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong/
Substitute teacher ran ‘fight club’ during math class
MONTVILLE, Conn. – A former substitute teacher was arrested Thursday for starting a “fight club” at a Connecticut high school, according to police.
Instead of supervising Montville High School students as they studied, 23-year-old Ryan Fish is accused of encouraging students in his class to fight while others watched.
Fish was arraigned in Norwich Superior Court Thursday on four counts of second-degree reckless endangerment, two counts of risk of injury to a minor and one count of breach of peace, according to the Hartford Courant.
“I didn’t realize what was happening at the time,” said Ryan Fish. “I didn’t have the training to know what was going on.”
State police believe otherwise.
“He’s not a certified teacher,” said Montville Resident State Trooper Sargent Mark Juhola. “It bothers me that so many teachers work so hard to get where they are and that this wasn’t a teacher but he was in that role.”
Juhola said Fish oversaw at least three scheduled fights last October involving five male students ages 14 to 16 .
Montville police began investigating after an injured student told a social worker he’d been beaten and robbed at school.
Police said cellphone video shows Fish encouraging the students and moving items out of the way so the teenagers could continue fighting.
After being confronted about the fighting on October 10th, 2017, police said Fish told the principal that “boys will be boys.”
Montville Public Schools Superintendent Brian Levesque fired Fish later that day.
But Sgt. Juhola said school officials never contacted police and only acknowledged the incident during the police investigation.
“Anytime a student is put in any type of injurious situation they need to contact the police department,” Juhola said.
Fish told WTIC that he was wrong, and was just trying to be friends with the students.
“I am so sorry…To be perfectly honest I was just trying to reach the kids. I thought these kids were just being rambunctious I just thought they needed an out.”
Students also told police Fish allowed them to draw lewd photos on the classroom board and admitted to doing drugs.
Fish was released on a promise to appear and is due back in court on May 8th.
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Man charged with incest kills 3, including daughter and their baby, before turning gun on himself
NEW MILFORD, Conn. — A man accused of impregnating his biological daughter allegedly killed her, their infant son, and her adoptive father before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide spanning three states, including New York, according to his defense attorney.
Steven Walter Pladl, 42, and Katie Rose Pladl, 20, were charged with incest after Katie gave birth to their son in September 2017.
On Thursday, officers found the first body at 106 Earlston Court in North Carolina, where 7-month-old Bennett Pladl was discovered dead around 9 a.m. Police made the grisly find while performing a welfare check, according to Knightdale Chief of Police Lawrence Capps.
Then, police found a man and a woman shot to death in a pickup truck in New Milford, Connecticut, after a passerby reported the shooting, according to WTIC. The victims were identified as Katie Pladl and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco, Capps said at a press conference Thursday.
Steven Pladl was found dead just miles away in Dover, New York, in a light blue mini-van with North Carolina registration. According to Lieutenant Larry Ash, spokesperson for New Milford Police, they found the murder suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators are working to establish a timeline of events.
The relationship between Pladl and Katie began when they met as adults. He and former wife, Alyssa, gave birth to Katie 20 years ago, when Alyssa was 17 years old.
Alyssa and Pladl, who was 22 at the time, opted to put the baby up for adoption. Eighteen years later, Katie located her biological parents on social media — who lived in Henrico County, Va. She later moved in with them, and called the pair mom and dad, WTVR reported.
Before Katie moved into Alyssa and Pladl’s Virginia home, she lived in New York with her adoptive parents, Kelly and Anthony Fusco. Katie, an artist, said in her online portfolio that she planned to attend Dutchess Community College in August 2016 and focus in online advertising.
But instead, she moved to Virginia and a short while later, Alyssa and Pladl separated with the intent to divorce.
Alyssa said she had no idea about the sexual relationship between Pladl and Katie until she read one of her other daughter’s journals where she found drawings of a pregnant Katie, WTVR reported. She also said her daughter had written that Pladl was making her call Katie her step-mom.
“There are no words to describe the sense of betrayal and disgust I’m feeling,” she told DailyMailTV. “I waited 18 long years to have a relationship with my daughter – and now he’s completely destroyed it.”
Alyssa later took out protective orders against Pladl, so he could not go near her or their two younger daughters. She said she believed Pladl brainwashed and manipulated Katie.
Pladl and Katie reportedly married in July 2017 and their son was born a few months later, in September. The arrest warrant indicated that the couple intended to marry after he was divorced in June 2017 and online pictures were captioned as wedding photos between the couple.
“I too have seen postings that they were married, my guess would be that it would not be legal under North Carolina or Virginia law for two people who are biologically related to get married,” Friedman said.
In addition to the incest charge, Steven and Katie were charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
On March 16, Pladl, who was released on an amended bond by Henrico County Judge Stewart Williams, was not allowed contact with Katie Pladl or his two children who live in Henrico. As a condition of his bond, he could no longer reside at the 106 Earlston Court home he shared with Katie, where the infant was found dead Thursday.
Katie, age 20, was also previously jailed in Henrico after the couple was extradited to Virginia. She was released on Feb. 28, with a $12,000 secured bond and ordered to avoid contact with Pladl. The conditions of her release were that she must reside with her adoptive parents, who live in New York, and was allowed to travel outside of state.
“My understanding is that when Katie Pladl and Steven Pladl were arrested, that my client’s mother moved into that house to take care of their biological son,” said Rick A. Friedman II, the Chesterfield defense attorney who was represented Steven Pladl.
He believed that Pladl’s mother was going to continue to reside with the minor child. North Carolina authorities said that she contacted police for the welfare check Thursday, the morning after Pladl picked up his son from her care.
“If any judge or any prosecutor or defense attorney involved in any of these cases believed that the Pladl child would be in harm’s way, there would not have been any bond,” Friedman said. “The professionals care too much about children.”
Mom arrested for leaving her three young children home alone for weekend trip to Texas
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – An Oklahoma City mother is accused of leaving her three young kids home alone while she went on a trip to Texas to meet a man.
“It’s not even worth it. Your kids should be your first priority,” neighbor De’Votnay Linzy told KFOR.
A police report says Shelly Harjo allegedly left her three children, ages 3, 4, and 11, home alone for the weekend, and that her priority was getting to Texas.
“She had been left there apparently for several days. All they had to eat was old pizza that had been purchased before the mom left town,” said MSgt. Gary Knight.
Knight said the 11-year-old child called police Monday because she thought her mom was missing. Harjo left for Texas on Friday and was supposed to return Sunday.
“She indicated to the daughter that she was going to Texas to get some money,” Knight said.
Linzy says it’s a poor excuse to leave your kids home alone.
“These kids are very precious and you shouldn’t leave the bigger one to watch the little ones, or the little ones to watch the big ones,” she said.
Police arrived to the south side apartment and gave the kids something to eat while notifying DHS.
“It was at that point the mother actually showed back up there at the residence,” said Knight.
Harjo told DHS officials that her friend was supposed to watch the kids that weekend and never showed up.
Limzy said leaving her kids alone is never an option.
“Not even out of town or even to the store,” she said.
The kids were placed in DHS custody. The children told officers they lived in the apartment for a month and haven’t been enrolled in school yet.
Harjo was arrested on child neglect charges.
Mariah Carey reveals she has bipolar disorder
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey revealed Wednesday she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The singer discussed her diagnosis in an exclusive interview with People magazine, and tweeted about the experience early Wednesday, saying she is “grateful to be sharing this part of my journey.”
In an abbreviated version of the interview posted on People.com, Carey says she was diagnosed with bipolar II in 2001 after she was hospitalized for a physical and mental breakdown.
Bipolar II disorder involves periods of depression and hypomania, the latter being a less severe version of mania, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Symptoms of mania can include feeling energetic, creative and euphoric, according to the nonprofit organization Help Guide. People experiencing hypomania may experience similar feelings, which can result in poor or harmful decision making, but can often carry on with their daily lives. Both mania and hypomania, however, may be followed up by severe depressive episodes.
Carey told People:
“For a long time I thought I had a severe sleep disorder. … But it wasn’t normal insomnia and I wasn’t lying awake counting sheep. I was working and working and working … I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down. It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. Eventually I would just hit a wall. I guess my depressive episodes were characterized by having very low energy. I would feel so lonely and sad — even guilty that I wasn’t doing what I needed to be doing for my career.”
The New York-born artist has won a slew of awards over the course of her 30-year career, including five Grammys, and has released 14 albums and appeared in more than a dozen movies.
She has 6-year-old twins who she co-parents with her ex-husband, fellow artist Nick Cannon.
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Woman arrested for beheading boyfriend asks cops to ‘let me get my heads’
A West Virginia woman was arrested for beheading her boyfriend before telling cops, “You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” as they drove her away from the bloody scene, authorities said.
A judge in Mercer County said further assessment is needed to evaluate the mental competency of Roena Cheryl Mills, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Bo Allen White, WVNS reported.
Mills, according to court documents obtained by the station, was found covered in blood while wearing a glove on her left hand when deputies responded on April 1 to a home on Eden Valley Road in Lerona.
Using a fake name, Mills, 41, told responding deputies she was cut and left bloodied after being thrown through a glass door. She then got combative with officers and was placed under arrest. Once inside a deputy’s cruiser, Mills reportedly said: “You have to take me back and let me get my heads.”
Later that day, cops were tipped off to the decapitated body of a man found on another block in town. A different, unidentified part of his body was also found where Mills was arrested, WVNS reports.
The killing, according to the criminal complaint, was a “decapitation homicide,” Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney George Sitler said.
“That’s how it appears,” Sitler told West Virginia MetroNews.
A court-ordered mental status evaluation will determine if Mills can face trial in White’s brutal death. The case will then be presented to a grand jury in June. If 12 of 16 grand jurors find probable cause in the alleged killing, Mills will be indicted either on a first- or second-degree murder charge, according to the prosecutor.
“Even though she’s only been initially charged with second-degree murder because there was some initial doubt about premeditation, [the] grand jury could certainly indict her for first-degree murder,” Sitler told the station.
Mills, of Rural Retreat, Virginia, remained in custody at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh on $210,000 cash-only bail as of Monday, jail records show.
While in custody at the jail, Mills — who was dating White, according to his father — had been talking about killing someone, employees told WVNS.
Deputies were called to the second home after its owners saw someone suspicious in their driveway, WVNews reports. A glove matching one that Mills was wearing at the time was found earlier at White’s home, according to the station.
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Mom arrested after toddler eats marijuana-laced mac and cheese
ARIZONA — An Arizona mother has been arrested after authorities allege her nearly 2-year-old daughter ate mac and cheese that was prepared with THC butter.
According to police, 25-year-old Alaina Limpert was taken into custody Wednesday after someone in her home alerted authorities that the girl had eaten the marijuana-laced food.
Per KTVK, cops say Limpert did not take her daughter in for medical treatment when she realized what had happened. Instead, the police report says Limpert “laughed about the side effects the child experienced during that time and then proceeded to place her into their backyard pool to use the cold water to ‘shock’ her.”
Two days later, a call to the Department of Child Safety led to all three children being taken away from Limpert and her husband’s home. Healthcare officials would reportedly later confirm the girl had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system.
Police say Limpert admitted she made the mac and cheese for her husband, but that he did not know her daughter had ingested it.
Per the police report, cops found marijuana grow tents in the home’s garage as well as mushrooms, hash oil, and drug paraphernalia. Limpert was arrested on charges of child abuse, marijuana possession and cultivation, and other charges.
She is due in court April 19th.
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Florida woman blames ‘windy day’ for cocaine found in purse – “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.”
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A woman in Florida blamed a “windy day” after a police officer found cocaine in her purse.
Kennecia Posey, 26, was in a vehicle stopped by Fort Pierce police last month after the vehicle was swerving in the roadway, WPLG reports.
According to the police report obtained by the station, a police officer found cocaine and marijuana in separate bags inside a purse on Posey’s lap.
Although Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, the cocaine was a different story.
“I don’t know anything about any cocaine,” Posey said, according to a police report. “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.”
Posey was jailed on one count each of cocaine possession and marijuana possession.
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Mom, boyfriend accused of beating 4-year-old to death over spilled cereal
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania mother and her boyfriend are accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death for spilling his cereal, KYW reports.
Lisa Smith, 19, and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Keiff King, have been charged with murder in connection with the Jan. 22 death of Tahjir Smith.
Paramedics found the 4-year-old unresponsive inside a home in Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia. Lisa Smith, the boy’s mother, initially told police she was walking home from a local mall when Tahjir became “wobbly” and struggled to breathe.
But his death was recently ruled a homicide after an autopsy showed that he died of multiple blunt and thermal injuries, as well as shock.
Smith admitted to police that she disciplined the boy, who she said was acting “sneaky” and started stuttering – something he did out of fear, according to KYW.
The boy was reportedly forced to hold a push-up position for a long period of time. When he dropped from the position, Smith and her boyfriend allegedly hit him on the head and struck his body repeatedly with a sandal.
The boyfriend also admitted to throwing the 4-year-old under a scalding shower after the boy urinated on himself, which an expert later discovered burned his shoulder, prosecutors said.
Paramedics found Tahjir “limp and unresponsive,” according to WDRB. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
The autopsy also revealed old rib fractures, showing that the beating that led to the boy’s death was not the first time he was abused.
Smith and King are both due back in court April 18.
FDNY paramedic accused of sexually abusing patient on the way to the hospital
BRONX — A New York City fire department paramedic has been accused of sexually abusing a patient in his care.
Police say 36-year-old Karel Delgado was arrested Monday on charges of criminal sex act, sex abuse and forcible touching. It wasn’t clear if he had a lawyer who could comment.
Police say the abuse began around midnight Saturday night in the Bronx while the patient was being taken to the hospital.
Authorities say the EMT pulled down her pants and attempted to touch her. They say he also exposed himself before sexually abusing her.
The patient reported the incident after arriving at the hospital.
Delgado has been suspended without pay pending the investigation.
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