Blue Herald
21
Sep
ST. BERNARD PARISH NURSING HOME OWNERS INDICTED
by QuestionGirl

Sooooooo, is Bush going to be indicted on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the victims left on roofs and in attics for days while waiting for rescue???? Not that the owner of this nursing home shouldn’t be charged, but let’s be fair here……. how many senior citizens died in attics and in homes with no way of escape? No food. No water. No hope. No rescue.

CHALMETTE, La. - The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.

A St. Bernard Parish grand jury took about four hours to return the indictment on 35 counts of negligent homicide and 64 counts of cruelty to the infirm against Salvador and Mabel Mangano, who were arrested about two weeks after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm. Their nursing home, St. Rita’s, is in the rural St. Bernard Parish community of Poydras.

The Manganos’ arrest represented the first major criminal prosecution arising from Katrina, which flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and virtually wiped out neighboring St. Bernard Parish. The Louisiana death toll was nearly 1,600.

Read full article at MSNBC


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