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Verdict Reached In Care Home Death

Mabel Taylor Died After Wandering Outside

Posted: 10:33 am EST February 8, 2007Updated: 8:28 pm EST February 8, 2007


3:30 PM UPDATE: Channel 11’s Kimberly Easton said Martha Bell was found guilty.

10:30 AM UPDATE: Channel 11’s Kimberly Easton reporting from Alleghany County Courthouse said jury deliberations are now in their second day in the Martha Bell murder trial.


An Allegheny County jury reached a verdict in the case of a former nursing home administrator charged in the death of a patient.

Martha Bell was found guilty Thursday afternoon on the following counts: guilty of involuntary manslaughter, guilty of neglect, guilty of conspiracy and guilty of reckless endangerment.

Bell was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Prosecutors said the former Ronald Reagan Atrium One Nursing Home was understaffed.

Defense attorneys argue the Robinson Township home was well run and the patient's death was a tragedy, but not a crime.

The Alzheimer's patient who died was 88-year-old Mabel Taylor.

She died six years ago after wandering outside on a cold night.

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