Ex-nurse pleads guilty in 13 patient murders
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, May 5, 2004
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Former New Jersey nurse Charles Cullen pleaded guilty last week to 13 murders and two attempted murders of patients, in a deal that will spare him from the death penalty, according to the New York Times.
Cullen, 44, faces consecutive life terms adding up to 127 years in prison and will not be eligible for parole. Cullen also agreed to help investigators identify other victims. He has claimed to have used lethal injections to kill more than 30 patients in the 16 years he worked at hospitals and a nursing home in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Somerset Medical Center, where Cullen last worked and where he says he killed 13 patients, is now in a legal fire storm and is expected to be hit with suits alleging civil negligence and wrongful deaths. The Times reported that five of those murders and one of the attempted murders occurred after the hospital was first warned that someone there might be intentionally poisoning patients.
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