Mass murderers of nursing home patients!:
Faces of PSYCHOPATHS Killer Governors: Exhibit A.
Posted on 09/25/2020 4:16:08 PM PDT by robowombat
Criminal Charges In Holyoke Soldiers Home Coronavirus Disaster Two former Holyoke Soldier Home officials will be charged after an outbreak that killed 76 veterans, the state Attorney General has said.
By Neal McNamara, Patch Staff Verified Patch Staff Badge Sep 25, 2020 11:07 am ET | Updated Sep 25, 2020 11:26 am ET
HOLYOKE, MA — Two former top officials at the Holyoke Soldiers Home will face state criminal charges in connection to a deadly coronavirus outbreak last spring that killed 76 veterans, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Friday.
Superintendent Bennett Walsh and former Medical Director Dr. David Clinton are facing 10 felony charges each — five counts of criminal neglect, and five counts of causing serious bodily harm to a senior citizen. The two men were indicted Thursday by a Hampden County grand jury.
Healey said the charges stem from a decision Walsh and Clinton made to combine dementia units at the hospital, mixing scores of patients who had tested positive for coronavirus with ones who had not. More than 40 veterans were moved into a room designed to hold only about 25 people, Healey said.
"To think about this now, knowing how contagious and deadly this virus is, is most disturbing," Healey said.
There were other instances where leaders decided to pack residents — some symptomatic, some not — into small rooms. On top of the deaths, 80 residents and 84 staff members contracted coronavirus after leaders made "utterly baffling" decisions, according to an investigation.
Walsh and Clinton could face years in prison, if found guilty, Healey said.
A report commissioned by Gov. Charlie Baker said that residents would have contracted and died of coronavirus even if better precautions had been taken. But the errors were so severe that the outbreak was much worse than it should've been, according to the report.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling and the state Office of the Inspector General are also investigating what happened at the facility.
"I do hope sincerely that [the charges] provide those affected by this tragedy some solace that we are doing everything we can to hold accountable the individuals we believe are responsible here," Healey said.
So Cuomo is next?
He’ll be protected ... but only in this life.
Mass murderers of nursing home patients!:
Faces of PSYCHOPATHS Killer Governors: Exhibit A.
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