Two more victims have been added to the death toll of a Pennsylvania nurse accused of killing patients.
Heather Pressdee has now been charged with murder in the deaths of four patients and faced with 17 counts of attempted murder for allegedly administering lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients at different rehabilitation centers where she worked, Pennsylvania’s attorney general announced this week. Michelle Henry.
In total, Pressdee, 41, has been accused of mistreating 22 patients, ranging in age from 43 to 104, since 2020, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
In total, 17 of Pressdee’s patients have died, although she has not been charged in those deaths, authorities said.
“The allegations against Ms. Pressdee are disturbing. “It is difficult to understand how a nurse, who is entrusted with the care of her patients, could choose to deliberately and systematically harm them,” Henry said.
Pressdee had a history of being disciplined for abusive behavior, according to court documents.
Her nursing license was suspended earlier this year after she was arrested in May for the murder of two patients.
Heather Pressdee is charged with murder in the deaths of four patients and is charged with 17 counts of attempted murder. Attorney General
He had complained to his mother in text messages about patients, colleagues and other people he crossed paths with, including at Arby’s, Taco Bell and a pizza restaurant, and talked about harming them, according to the documents.
“If you get like this you will get pillow therapy,” he said in one message, apparently referring to suffocation.
“I can’t handle this lady tonight,” he said in another text message, authorities said. “She’s going to get pillow therapy.”
“This nurse could die today,” he told his mother in a text message in January.
In 2018, he wrote on Facebook, “I could kill a doctor today,” and stated in a different post, “if you needed to take 2 units, but accidentally took 10 units, it could be fatal in a matter of hours.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced new attempted murder charges against former nurse Heather Pressdee.Twitter/@PAAttorneyGen
An attorney for Pressdee said she is trying to avoid the death penalty and that the new charges were not unexpected, according to reports.
The alleged crimes occurred while Pressdee was working as a registered nurse at the following facilities: Concordia at Rebecca Residence; Belair Healthcare and Rehabilitation (Guardian); Chicora Quality of Life Services; Premier Armstrong Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; and Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Pressdee briefly worked at several nursing homes and facilities in western Pennsylvania starting in 2018, according to the documents, and previously worked as a veterinary technician.
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