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Recent investigations have shown that six patients from Woodstock facility died in 2006. According to CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli, a nurse from the Woodstock facility is guilty for the death of those six patients. Marty Himebaugh killed the patients with lethal drug overdoses, as some of her colleagues reported to the police.
The nurse seemed to be carrying for the patients there, but some say she considered them to be troubled so she killed some of them. "These people aren't meant to live that long. They are meant to die in their teens. And I'm going to help him along," Himebaugh said about one 56-year-old patient who had Down syndrome.
Also another female patient died after Himebaugh gave her an overdose. And as other nurses told the police, after Himebaugh gave the overdose she said that "She won't make it through the day. I made sure of that." John Sherman, a man who was brought suffering from liver cancer, died in the same way only four days after he arrived to the nursing home.
Still, the prosecutors charged her only with criminal neglect, because it is the only thing they can prove in court. Penny Whitlock, the former director of the nursing home, was charged because she had encouraged Himbaugh to act as an angel of the death in the facility.
Neither Himbaugh nor Whitlock work at Woodstock Residence and the facility is now owned by other persons.
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