Doc Won't Face Charges in Katrina Deaths

Dr. Anna Pou thought the horror that followed Hurricane Katrina ended when rescue workers plucked her from the flooded hospital where she rode out the storm and its aftermath.

For almost a week, she dealt with no electricity, 110-degree temperatures and death inside Memorial Medical Center. Looters roamed the streets outside. At least 30 people died at the hospital, many from dehydration while waiting for rescuers.

But for Pou, the horrors of the August 2005 storm did not end until Tuesday, when a grand jury refused to indict her on murder and conspiracy charges.

Pou (pronounced "Poe") and two nurses were arrested last summer after Attorney General Charles Foti concluded they gave "lethal cocktails" to four patients after the storm. Pou acknowledged administering medication to the patients but insisted she did so only to relieve their pain.

Charges against the nurses, Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, were dropped after they were compelled to testify last month before the grand jury under legal guidelines that kept their testimony from being used against them.

Full A.P. wire service article, SF Chronicle, July 25, 2007

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See my earlier Posting from when the Charges were first Filed and the Chonicle's coverage of the story, Chronic(le) Disconnect.

The people that *should* have been Charged with those deaths are George Dubya Bu$h, Dickless Cheney, and other officials of the Bu$h Regime not limited to F.E.M.A..

TLC