Two emergency medical service employees in Illinois have been charged with first-degree homicide within the dying of a 35-year-old affected person beneath their care after improperly restraining him in an ambulance.
Sangamon County State’s Attorney Dan Wright mentioned in a press convention that LifeStar EMS employees Peggy Finley, 44, and Peter Cadigan, 50, had been charged within the dying of 35-year-old Earl L. Moore Jr. on December 18.
Wright mentioned police had been known as to Moore’s residence and located him affected by a hallucinatory episode and instantly known as emergency companies for affected person care.
Finley and Cadigan had been tasked with transporting Moore in an ambulance.
The pair allegedly positioned Moore facedown on a paramedic stretcher and incorrectly tied him down with a medical strap throughout Moore’s again and decrease physique.
“Following the arrival of EMS, Earl Moore Jr. became the victim of acts which caused his death at the hands of individuals called by police to provide emergency medical care,” Wright mentioned.
An post-mortem revealed that Moore died from “compressional and positional asphyxia due to prone facedown restraint on a paramedic transportation cot stretcher by tightened straps across the back”.
The pair ought to have recognized from their coaching and expertise that positioning a affected person in such a means “would create a substantial probability of great bodily harm or death”, Wright added.
Finley and Cadigan had been booked into the Sangamon County Jail on a $1 million bond every.
If discovered responsible, each EMS employees resist 20 to 60 years in jail.
LifeStar Ambulance Service didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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