Nursing Home owners charged with negligent homicide (AP)

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Nursing-home owners charged with negligent homicide flood-related deaths

BATON ROUGE, La. - The husband-and-wife owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home where 34 people died in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were charged Tuesday with negligent homicide.
      The case represents the first major prosecution to come out of the disaster in New Orleans.
      The owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home in the town of Chalmette ``were asked if they wanted to move (the patients). They did not. They were warned repeatedly that this storm was coming. In effect, their inaction resulted in the deaths of these patients,'' Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti said.
      Salvador A. Mangano and his wife, Mable, surrendered and were jailed on 34 counts of negligent homicide. Each count carries up to five years in prison.

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