Nurse Indicted for Patient Abuse, Drug Possession

Nina Perez, 31, of Berwick, Maine indicted by Rockingham County Grand Jury following her arrest in August that she deprived a patient of morphine at Edgewood Centre.
By Robert Cook
September 24, 2012

A Berwick, Maine woman who authorities say deprived an elderly patient of morphine so she could take the drug at a Portsmouth elderly care facility has been indicted by a Rockingham County Grand Jury.
Nina Perez, 31, of 93A Rochester St. in Berwick, Maine was indicted in September for one felony count of possession of a controlled drug and indicted for another felony count of abuse of facility patients while she worked as a nurse in May at the Edgewood Centre in Portsmouth.
According to court documents, Perez allegedly deprived one elderly patient of morphine so she could use it on May 19, 2012.

 SOURCE:      PortsmouthNHPatch

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