A nurse who was arrested on charges
of killing 13 patients swore on her children she is innocent
during an interrogation in a Pisa prison Monday.
Fausta Bonino, 55, was arrested last Thursday on charges
of multiple homicide aggravated by cruelty, violation of duty
during public service and taking advantage of patient
vulnerability after it emerged she injected lethal doses of
Heparin, an anticoagulant, into her victims - men and women aged
61-88, none of them terminally ill.
Bonino is married with two children and had worked at the
anaesthesia and intensive care unit at the hospital in the
Tuscan town of Piombino where the suspicious deaths occurred for
20 years before being transferred to a different department in
October 2015.
Livorno prosecutor Ettore Squillace Greco said on Monday
that there are other reports relating to Bonino that need to be
evaluated, but that he couldn't comment on whether or not they
were specific police reports against Bonino regarding other
patients.
Bonino's defence attorney Cesarina Barghini on Monday
requested that her client be released to house arrest, and a
judge reserved his decision for the next 48 hours.
Barghini said her client has been "put in the media meat
grinder, because the investigators were cleverly misguided and
the prosecution didn't follow other leads".
"She was the weakest person and the easiest to hit by those
who were interested in covering up certain omissions or
breaches," Barghini said.
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