Police busted 71-year-old Jose Casso after he allegedly botched an abortion on a 16-year-old girl at his Hialeah clinic.
The girl said that she bled heavily after her abortion, and had to go to a hospital to be treated for infection. She may never be able to have children due to the damage to her reproductive organs. She said she knew right away that something was wrong after the abortion. “When I woke up,” she said, “I was crying and I gold him ‘Please get me my mom because I feel really bad.’ I told my mom that I felt like I was bleeding a lot. And my mom looked, and she saw a whole bunch of blood.”
Casso had been arrested twice in the previous months for practicing medicine without a license, yet his clinic remained open. News reports say that nearly 40 other women have come forward to say that they were treated by Casso. Police said that along with “multiple pieces of human fetuses,” they found illegal and expired medications at Casso’s office.
Casso had been running the clinic for more than 20 years, treating patients and prescribing medications. His attorney denies all the charges, saying that Casso had licensed physicians on staff who performed the procedures.
Casso was first arrested after a woman reported that he had sexually abused her. She said that she was trying to establish residency, and went to Casso’s clinic when her employer told her to get some vaccinations. She made an appointment to return six months later to be treated for a vaginal infection, and it was on this visit, she said, that Casso abused her.
Credit: Christina Dunigan
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