Owners of St. Bernard Parish nursing home indicted for negligent homicide

[blonndee]

Breaking news banner on CNN, per AP report.

http://www.cnn.com/

Updated: there's now a story on yahoo - posted also in LBN. Sorry.

New Orleans nursing home owners indicted

By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago

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.

Salvador and Mabel Mangano were initially arrested about two weeks after the Aug. 29, 2005, storm. They own St. Rita's nursing home in St. Bernard Parish, a coastal suburb of New Orleans badly flooded by Katrina.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060920/ap_on_re_us/katrina_nursing_home_deaths_1

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, abandonment of care

by underpaid staff members who wanted to check on their own homes and families after they'd been on duty for a solid 36 hours. That's who they're going to hang, not the nursing home owners who didn't transport the old folks out of there before the storm.

[LisaM]

2. Can the negligent homicide charges trickle up?

So that everyone who had a hand in this is held responsible?