Bail reduced for "Black Madam"
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Bail reduced for "Black Madam"
A judge lowered the bail from $10 million to $750,000 this morning for Padge-Victoria Windslowe, the so-called "Black Madam" accused of running an illegal buttock-injection business.
Windslowe, who was arrested Feb. 29, must post 10 percent of the bail amount to be released. Even then, she will remain under house arrest with her parents and be subject to electronic monitoring.
Prosecutors said Windslowe uses seven or eight names and aliases, several addresses, and that she has identification documents in multiple names. Philadelphia Lt. John Walker, of the Southwest Detective Division, said authorities also feel she is a flight risk because she runs a cash business.
Windslowe's attorney, Chris Mannix, said after the hearing that Windslowe has deep roots in Philadelphia, including three sisters, a mother and stepfather, and that she would not leave the area. He said he did not know if she would be able to post bail.
"That remains to be seen," he said.
Windslowe is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly holding a "pumping party" in which she injected a 23-year-old North Philadelphia woman with silicone or some other substance that later caused her to fall ill and be hospitalized. That woman has been released but is still on oxygen, and her health problems are ongoing, police said. Authorities believe Windslowe has given injections to at least 14 other women in recent months.
Windslowe has also been linked to the death of a 20-year-old woman who traveled to Philadelphia from London last year to undergo the procedure, then died shortly after Windslowe injected her. There has been no ruling on that woman's cause of death but police believe Windslowe is responsible.
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we should appoint you village idiot!— SKYMAN- This is crazy. I can agrue the more family someone has in the area the more resources they have to hide them. Didn't it take the cops weeks to track her down last year? Post the judge name in the article next time.— A1Z
- why does she deserve a bail reduction (not that she is going to come up with 75K to get sprung)— j.k.
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- She deserves a bail reduction because it's not her fault the "victims" were stupid enough to go to her for injections in the first place.— kidretdes
- Yes, let her/him/it (whatever) loose to go back pumping poison into foolish women. $75K is not easy to earn in that racket. It will take several "pumping parties" to do. Meanwhile a few more will die...— DonQ
- The name of the judge may be worth mentioning !— publius sempronius tuditanus
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