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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Prosecutors formally indicted four former employees of a Florida nursing home, where a power outage following a hurricane resulted in the death of 12 patients.
The Broward County Attorney's Office on Monday filed a criminal disclosure report outlining nine counts of manslaughter of an elderly person against Administrator Jorge Carballo and Nursing Supervisor Sergo Colin.
Nurse Althia Meggie faces two counts of major manslaughter of a senior and two counts of falsification of evidence. Nurse Tamika Miller faces six counts of major manslaughter and two counts of falsification of evidence.
POLICE EXPECTED IN THE CASE OF HEAT-RELATED DEATHS IN FLORIDA INFIRMI-HOME TO MAKE MORE ARRESTS
They were arrested last month.
This 2017 photo shows police at the south entrance of the Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center.
(Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald via AP, File)
Residents of the now-closed Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center died in extreme heat after Hurricane Irma in 2017.
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Defense lawyers say their clients are unjustly accused of failures.
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