European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes . Sunday May 8,1994 Scalp ear reattached High tech surgery leeches help save woman los Angeles apr a doctors. Combined microsurgery and leeches to reattach the skin and hair of a woman who was scalped from her eyelids to the Back of her neck by an Industrial Accident at a packaging company the re ate Rcd to 1 e ave 30-year-old Patsy Bogle disfigured but doctors who performed the rare operation said Friday that she would Bogle recover with few or no visible signs of her injury. Bogle an employee at Ross technical associates of Monrovia 20 Miles East of los Angeles said she was cleaning the Blades of an Industrial blender tuesday when the machine caught her Ponytail. She Felt her head smash into the machine. In an instant her Scalp was torn off from her eyelids to the Back of her neck including two thirds of her right ear.,. A / a. A a. A a i just remember hitting my head a she told the lbs Angeles times from her hos vital bed. A i yelled at my Boss help me Elp me a. I was afraid i was gome to would probably have survived doctors said but would have needed extensive skin grafts and would never have looked the same. She would have had to Wear a wig for the rest of her life. . $0.46 i Australia $0.80 Canada $0.69 g 2 per minute g 2 24hour�/dfly no surcharges Quot j a no monthly fees Ujj West v s com 1 . S 2 Santa Ana Ca Heidelberg Germany g 06221-3931h of. It 2 Tel fix 0622t-322 he Quot its not like if you lose a Finger or thumb a or. John Gross said be replaced or you have other fingers to use. But a forehead hair eyebrows that is a catastrophic injury. Those would be very difficult a impossible a to \ fortunately her Scalp came off in one piece. Paramedics removed it from the machine arid packed it in ice to keep the tissue alive. Bogle was sent to specialists at the University of Southern californians University Hospital and was operated on five hours after the Accident. During the five hour operation Gross and or. Bala Chandrasekhar reattached veins muscle cartilage and skin including the ear. Sterile medicinal leeches Are being placed on the ear and Scalp to suck away blood until veins can heal and begin pumping naturally. Gross said he searched medical files thursday arid found about 20 such cases worldwide. The operation is rare because the injury does no to happen often and when it does it is unusual for a Scalp to be recovered whole. Bogle will still need minor plastic sur Geisy to fix her right eyelid. But swelling has started to go Down and doctors said she May be Able to go Home this week. Quot her husband has been watching her Scalp and says he thinks he sees some hair growing a Gross said. 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Abraham Meyers who had his License suspended 26 times and has at least one Drunken driving conviction was driving 70 Mph at night with his headlights off when he ran a red Light police said. A grand jury found the behaviour a so Wanton so deficient in moral conscience and concern so devoid of regard to the lives of others and so blameworthy that it indicted him on murder charges. Meyers attorney Andrew Morgam said his client is a completely sorry that its happened and he s completely sorry to the Giovanni Vaccarello survived but has serious head neck and leg injuries. He left a Hospital briefly to attend a private funeral service for his family in Brooklyn but he was not at our lady of Guadalupe Church for a larger gathering. Young girls in plaid uniforms teens wearing White varsity sweaters College students and friends jammed the 2,500-seat Church. John who had stayed behind the night of the party last weekend to help a Cousin clean up assisted in carrying his mothers casket from the Church tears Welling in his eyes. Athe family a priest monsignor Angelo Brugli choked Back sobs during the service each time he spoke of the Vaccare los first in English and then in italian for Cathy Vaccarelloj smother. And father who flew in from Italy. A they were planning to come next month to attend graduations for Concetta and John a said sister Frances a first Grade teacher who taught Al three vac Carello children. Quot instead they come for this a High school senior was a team Leader for her schools students against driving runic chapter. She helped plan a Campaign that was supposed to be presented this week but was cancelled. A. Concetta had won a scholarship and planned to attend St. Johns University in the fall. Maria a Brooklyn College student hoped to become a doctor. Cathy Vaccarello was a Hairdresser and teachers aide who lived for her children according to. Friends in the family s close knit italian american neighbor Hood in Brooklyn. Meyers was indicted on three counts each of murder reckless manslaughter and vehicular manslaughter. He also was charged with assault and vehicular assault and driving while intoxicated. If convicted he faces life in prison. Police said Meyers blood alcohol level was 0.23 percent when he was arrested Well Over the Legal Jevel of 0.10. Meyers a Hospital janitor was driving with a suspended License. He has not had a valid License since 1967, authorities said. Meyers is in jail without bail until his arraignment May 26. Rape conviction upheld for teen s husband Frankfort by. A a Man who argued that a 13-year-old girl had consented to have sex lost his bid Friday to have his conviction for statutory rape overturned. He and the girl Are now married and have a child. The Kentucky court of appeals rejected Jason Lee Griffith a claim that the states rape Law is unconstitutional because it assumes those under 16 wild unmarried cannot consent to sex. Its Legal to have sex with someone that Young if those involved Are married. Griffith was 22 and chastity Lunsfo was 13 when she got pregnant in 19 their son was born that december. The couple married a month lat with consent of the girls Mother we Griffith Scase was pending in Kent circuit court. Griffith pleaded guilty second degree rape in March 1993 a was sentenced to five years. Griffith a attorney previously vowed take the Case to the state supreme coi if they lost at the appeals court level
