Nurse swears innocence 'on her kids' (3)

(ANSA) - Pisa, April 4 - 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.