[BITList] Fw: Southern Cross and Winterbourne View have tested public tolerance to destruction | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian

[x50type at cox.net]

time to read/empty your mail, mike!
ct

in the meantime I did find out what happened to the owners of the nursing home.....................

The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were acquitted Friday of negligent homicide and cruelty charges for not evacuating the facility as the storm approached. 

The jury took about four hours to acquit Sal and Mabel Mangano, the husband-and-wife owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish, just outside of New Orleans.



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From: x50type at cox.net 
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 12:21 PM
To: Michael Feltham 
Subject: Re: Fwd: Southern Cross and Winterbourne View have tested public tolerance to destruction | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian

this is appalling, mike
but the same thing goes on here.......
however, there has to be a condition bordering on death before the place is shut down!
but, what happens? the company running the business sells it to some another company; it is actually the first company under a different name with a different ceo........
this care-giving business is so lucrative that it is like the drug trade to the operators. money for jam.
carrying on the tradition of maximum profit, the company seeks the cheapest possible attendants, accordingly they get what they pay for  -and guess who suffers?
during Katrina one nursing home here [St.Rita's] simply abandoned their patients to the hurricane and left town themselves – 35 patients died/drowned. 
the owners were charged with negligent homicide in 2005. 
the trial was in 2007 but I can’t find the verdict. whether they were jailed or got a slap on the wrist I don’t know.
colin


From: Michael Feltham 
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 11:05 AM
To: Colin Taylor 
Subject: Fwd: Southern Cross and Winterbourne View have tested public tolerance to destruction | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/03/southern-cross-winterbourne-view-care-homes


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