PHILADELPHIA (MCT) — Speaking softly but in an unwavering voice, Theresa Gyamfi told a Common Pleas Court judge that moments after her childhood friend Claudia Aderotimi received several silicone buttock injections in a Philadelphia hotel room, the woman complained of a sudden, growing pain in her chest.

“She said every time she breathes in, it hurts,” Gyamfi, 22, said of her friend’s reaction after the February 2011 procedure. “I could see it in her face. She was close to tears. She said, ‘It’s really annoying, and it doesn’t feel normal.’”