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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 18, 1993                   TAG: 9302180077
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: ATLANTA                                LENGTH: Short

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MANSLAUGHTER ALLEGED IN SILICONE TREATMENT

A man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a transsexual who died while getting a silicone injection to make his hips fuller, authorities said.

Police charged Fred Kennedy Glenn with involuntary manslaughter in the death last November of Sophia Pastel. He faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Pastel, 33, of Norfolk, Va., died in a hotel room moments after receiving a silicone injection in his buttock, police said. Police said the silicone came from an automobile supply store.

Atlanta is developing a reputation as a center for back-alley silicone shots among transsexuals who cannot afford sex-change operations, said Dallas Denny, who directs the Atlanta-based American Educational Gender Information Service.

"People look at it as a quick and easy way to feminize themselves," she said.

She said hundreds of people come to Atlanta each year for silicone shots.

Injections of liquid silicone are not approved for anything in this country. Many medical studies have found that it can migrate to other parts of the body with harmful and possibly fatal effects.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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