Legal expenses have been filed towards a outstanding plastic surgeon and an anesthetist who have been concerned within the 2019 breast augmentation surgical procedure on 18-year-old Emmalyn Nguyen, who died following the process, authorities introduced Wednesday.
Court docket data present Dr. Geoffrey Kim is being charged with reckless manslaughter, a felony, together with 1st diploma aggravated assault, additionally a felony. Kim turned himself in to authorities Wednesday and was launched on $5,000 bond, CBS Denver reported.
Nurse anesthetist Rex Meeker, who was additionally concerned within the case, can be dealing with a cost of reckless manslaughter. A warrant has been issued for Meeker's arrest.
Nguyen underwent a breast augmentation surgical procedure in August 2019. She went into cardiac arrest and commenced turning blue in the course of the process. However authorities stated Dr. Kim didn't contact emergency personnel to move Nguyen to a hospital for roughly 5 hours.
Nguyen suffered extreme mind harm and was in a minimally aware state earlier than she died in October 2020.
Medical authorities stated Meeker additionally had an obligation to name for emergency assist and get Nguyen to a hospital.
"We opened this case in August 2019. The investigation has taken greater than two years to finish and concerned dozens of interviews and search warrants," Captain Travis Stewart with the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Workplace stated, "Our hope is that this would be the starting of bringing justice and a way of closure to Emmalyn's household."
Final yr, Dr. Kim and Meeker agreed to pay $1 million every to the household, CBS Denver reported.
On Thursday, Nguyen's household stated they have been glad to be "lastly getting justice for Emmalyn."
"Although it should by no means carry our daughter again, a minimum of it will assist others from getting harm and forestall ruining different households' lives," the household stated in an announcement. "We nonetheless have not been capable of get closure from Emmalyn's dying. Hopefully bringing legal expenses will carry out the reality about what occurred and can carry justice for Emmalyn."