Ex-Nurse Pleads Not Guilty to Murdering and Injuring Patients With Bleach Injections
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A former nurse has pleaded not guilty to murdering five patients and injuring five others with bleach injections at a Texas dialysis clinic.
The Lufkin Daily News reports in Saturday's editions that 35-year-old Kimberly Saenz remains free on $500,000 bond after her Friday arraignment. She's charged with five counts each of capital murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The indictment alleges she injected 10 patients with bleach last April at the Lufkin DaVita Dialysis clinic. Five died.
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Federal records show 34 patients were taken by ambulance from the clinic that month, more than three times the March total.
DaVita fired Saenz a day after temporarily closing the clinic.
No trial date has been set.