Holding a photo of her late daughter, Judith Gorcey said she was determined to keep the mother of two’s memory alive.
“She was fun. She was loyal to her friends. She was a great daughter,” Gorcey said speaking in a court hallway Monday.
Gorcey’s daughter Megan Espinoza died in 2018 after getting a breast augmentation procedure at the Divino Plastic Surgery Clinic in Bonita, Calif.
The clinic’s plastic surgeon, Dr. Carlos Chacon, pleaded guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter and aiding and abetting an unlicensed person to practice medicine for his role in Espinoza’s death. In exchange, he will be sentenced to three years in state prison and is banned from practicing medicine in California.
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“It doesn’t seem like justice for our girl. But I’m very grateful to the district attorney of San Diego that they took on the case,” Gorcey said.
”I’m glad that Chacon cannot hurt anyone else. I’m glad he had to surrender his license. He gave our daughter a death sentence. He gave us (a) life sentence of pain.”