{"id":379676,"date":"2026-10-22T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379676\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:36:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-mount-vernon-woman-charged-in-connecticut-mothers-death-after-alleged-botched-cosmetic-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379676\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Mount Vernon Woman Charged In Connecticut Mothers Death After Alleged Botched Cosmetic Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman has been charged in connection with the death of a Bridgeport mother whose body was dropped off at a Bronx hospital after what investigators believe may have been a botched cosmetic procedure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says 47-year-old Alicia Leslie, of Mount Vernon, was arrested Oct. 16 and charged with criminally negligent homicide and unauthorized practice of a profession in the death of <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/sources-womans-body-found-outside-bronx-cemetery-with-multiple-injection-shots-in-her-buttocks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">53-year-old Maxine Messam, of Bridgeport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Messam&#8217;s death shocked friends and family, who described her as a devoted wife, mother and hardworking state employee.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police previously said two women claiming to be Good Samaritans brought Messam to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx around 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 15, 2022, saying they found her near a cemetery asking for help.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators said Messam was partially unclothed and had multiple injection marks on her buttocks, leading detectives to investigate whether she was the victim of a botched cosmetic procedure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Messam was later identified by police, and her family was notified.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Friends who spoke with News 12 following her death remembered Messam as someone who &#8220;lit the room with her presence&#8221; and said they were heartbroken by the circumstances surrounding her death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD has not released additional details about Leslie&#8217;s alleged role in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been charged in connection with the death of a Bridgeport mother whose body was dropped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-379676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}