An unlicensed cosmetologist was convicted Thursday of criminally negligent homicide for injecting a deadly dose of silicone into a Bronx woman — then sealing her festering wounds with Bounty paper towels and Krazy Glue.
Elsa Then, 58, injected the substance into the rear-end and thighs of Fiordaliza Pichardo on March 16, 2009.
Pichardo, 43, died of cardiac arrest the next day.
Then’s fate was sealed by powerful testimony from Pichardo’s grieving daughter, who was present for the injection treatment at her mother’s home near Bruckner Blvd.
“She was injecting my mother and my mother was in pain,” Marinez Rodriguez said. “She used a piece of Bounty paper with Krazy Glue to seal the injection site, and she actually asked me to help.”
Later, at Pichardo’s wake, Then tried to pin Pichardo’s death on her smoking habit.
“Oh, those cigarettes, I knew they were going to kill your mother,” she brazenly told Rodriguez. “I told her to stop.”
Then fled to the Dominican Republic when detectives began snooping around, prosecutors said. She was arrested about a year after the incident.
Then’s sister, who identified herself as Maria Hackley, said she should never have been charged.
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