NURSING BOSS TURNED BLIND EYE TO 'ANGEL OF DEATH'

SHE WAS WARNED. According to Illinois prosecutors, nursing home boss Penny Whitlock ignored warnings that one of her nurses was blasting elderly residents with super duper doses of morphine. She did, however, call nurse Marty Himebaugh the "Angel of Death." At least one of the patients died of a morphine overdose.
“She did nothing,” prosecutor Philip Hiscock said of Whitlock as her trial opened, claiming she showed “cold, callous, indifference to her patients.” Whitlock, 62, is charged with criminal neglect and obstruction of justice following a lengthy investigation into six suspicious deaths in 2006 at the Woodstock Residence nursing center in the Chicago suburb. The bodies of three nursing home patients who died there during that time were later exhumed as part of the 15-month probe into the deaths.

Himebaugh, 60, still is awaiting trial on charges of criminal neglect and improperly dispensing morphine. Neither woman was charged in the deaths.

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