Jeana (DP) said:On television last night Nancy Grace was talking to one of the workers there who said she ended up trying to save some of them by floating them out of there. They got all of the patients that they could onto the roof. Apparently the two owners had rowed away in a boat earlier. Somone said later that they were seen out "shopping."
rollerbladr123 said:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050913/ts_nm/katrina_charges_dc_2;_ylt=AhH.NYDhEnAbC8KQIZYjEGIbLisB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUlLouisiana nursing home operators charged in deaths
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BATON ROUGE (Reuters) - The owners of a nursing home where 34 people were found dead after Hurricane Katrina have been arrested and charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide for not evacuating those patients, the Louisiana attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
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I'm wondering now if this is the place that Aaron Boussard referred to as where the call was coming from to her son who works in the same building as Boussard for help?kgeaux said:Thank God!!
Tom'sGirl said:I'm wondering now if this is the place that Aaron Boussard referred to as where the call was coming from to her son whop works in the same building as Boussard for help?
rollerbladr123 said:Dan Abrams had the coroner from New Orleans on -he has completed autopsies on 2 of the patients of St. Rita's and the cause of death for both victims was drowning. The autopsies of the other 32 patients will be done in the coming days. The coroner could not say whether the D.A. had additional info right now to charge all 34 victims with negligent homicide. As usual, a LA defense attorney said that prosecution of such a case would be difficult under Louisiana law.
I believe what I heard about the patients at Tulane and Charity - it wasn't because of being abandoned they died - they died because the nurses and doctors were unable to save them - the heat and lack of air conditioning was a major factor in killing some of them - for others, it was just their time. Naturally, they didn't evacuate the corpses from the hospitals when they were working on getting the patients out.kgeaux said:I don't know. But if people were left to die at other nursing homes, then those people need to face charges, too. I'm wondering about patients who died at Tulane and Charity.....those patients should have been evacuated pre-storm also. Who made the decision to leave them there, and will those face charges also? I hope so.
kgeaux said:Not if I'm on the jury. I wouldn't have a hard time convicting at all. I would think failure to provide reasonable care and negligence would be easy to prove. I have a 98 year old grandmother, and I can only imagine how heart rending it would be to know someone left her to drown. God.
Details said:I believe what I heard about the patients at Tulane and Charity - it wasn't because of being abandoned they died - they died because the nurses and doctors were unable to save them - the heat and lack of air conditioning was a major factor in killing some of them - for others, it was just their time. Naturally, they didn't evacuate the corpses from the hospitals when they were working on getting the patients out.
Pre-storm - I don't know if they evacuated anyone, but I know some patients were too sick to move - evacuating a hospital kills patients who could otherwise survive. Hospitals are made to survive most disasters anyway - generators, special construction codes, etc. Nurses and doctors stay behind. I think the hospitals don't usually evacuate. They're supposed to be there, ready to take care of the storm's victims.
A nursing home is completely different though - they aren't built to be a shelter in a hurricane.
kgeaux said:Not if I'm on the jury. I wouldn't have a hard time convicting at all. I would think failure to provide reasonable care and negligence would be easy to prove. I have a 98 year old grandmother, and I can only imagine how heart rending it would be to know someone left her to drown. God.