Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General.
CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana's Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the internet world that patients were being killed by health care workers who wanted to flee the appalling conditions in the inner city New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center. Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.
The following July, one doctor and the two nurses were arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients. Dr. Anna Pou, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, denied the charges insisting that she did not support euthanasia and claimed to have given only comfort care for the patients.
Court documents, however, assert that witnesses have testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. 34 dead patients were found in Memorial following the Katrina disaster.
Foti told media, "We spent almost 10 ½ months investigating and, after all of this, can only come to the conclusion that this crime had been committed."
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
New Orleans Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters, Then Flee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html
Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092502.html
Completely! I knew it was bad, the liberal indoctrination, all that, but this is getting out of control. Pravda style. (And as we well know, not "just" this story.)
totally!
Yeah, but you always say that, no matter what the situation. I stopped taking you seriously long ago.
Nor is there evidence to support that they were in fact killed. That's why the D.A. is grasping at straws and trying to offer full immunity to the nurses in the hopes that they will say something that might possibly be used as evidence against the doctor. So far, even with the full immunity, they seem to be sticking with their original statements.
They had a very difficult situation on their hands, and they werent used to that. They were used to ideal conditions.
Not many people in this country would be used to a situation like post-Katrina New Orleans. However, I expect that medical personnel at a public hospital in NO constantly deal with "very difficult situation[s]"; in fact, that is probably the norm. At any rate, they most certainly do not work under "ideal conditions".
I don't see how anybody who wasn't there can imagine what the conditions were like, and under what stresses people had to make sometimes awful decisions.
I don’t have to be at the scene of the crime to know that murder is wrong. If jurors could only be chosen from a pool of people who were at the scene of the crime our justice system would be pretty screwed up.
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