Posted on 09/13/2005 2:59:47 PM PDT by areafiftyone
BATON ROUGE, Sept 13 (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 their patients, the Louisiana attorney general's office said on Tuesday.
Mable Mangano and Salvador Mangano Sr. declined an offer from authorities of buses to evacuate the residents of their facility, the state said.
I'm not a lawyer, but as a jurist, I'd have a fairly hard time believing/convicting someone of turning down busses during a mandatory evacuation unless the busses went there to get the people and were fought off at gunpoint.
Granted I do not know the whole story that will hopefully come out during the trial.
I'd love to know which authority offered to evacuate the residents on buses.
Nursing home update ping
Just thought y'all might be interested.
I wonder if Broussard will be called to testify at the trial, seeing as how he's placed himself as a material witness in the case, having received all of these phone calls.
Could be interesting...
That's a good point. Since these patients probably would have been "evacuated" to the Superdome, I'm not sure I would blame the owners of the facility for refusing the evacuation help.
I don't know it the account is accurate, but I heard on a local Fox radio news broadcast that the nursing home patients were believed to have been dead BEFORE the storm hit.
I don't know it the account is accurate, but I heard on a local Fox radio news broadcast that the nursing home patients were believed to have been dead BEFORE the storm hit.
Ahh-YEP!
I don't think that is true since they were drowned and the levees were intact before the storm.
Nope! Sovereign immunity.
I've heard conflicting reports. Did they die from the actual storm surge, or from levee break?
St. Bernard Coroner Bryan Bertucci said he called nursing home owner Mabel Mangano during a Parish Council meeting at 2 p.m. on Aug. 28, a day before the storm. He said he asked her why she had not followed the evacuation plan she filed with the parish and removed her patients to Baton Rouge and Lafayette on the two buses set aside for them. "She told me she had a generator and five nurses and had gotten the permission of the patients' families to stay put," Bertucci said. "Then she asked me if I thought the council would be mad at her."
I heard they were already dead before the flooding, and they evacuated living patients but not dead ones.
The Manganos' attorney should have them appear at their arraignment wearing neckbraces.
Same nursing home Howlin referenced today?
Yes.
As I'm reading this thread I heard this idiot Broussard on the TV in the background.
Guess that clip of him bawling is on Current Affair.
They sure did move fast on this one
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