A nurse in Miami was taken into custody on Friday after allegedly disconnecting her mother from a ventilator, telling hospital personnel she wished for her to “pass away peacefully.”
According to an arrest affidavit reviewed by NBC affiliate WTVJ, 54-year-old Juansette Sabrina Green brought her mother to Northshore Medical Center on May 5 when the woman began having trouble breathing.
She was eventually transferred to the intensive care unit, where she was intubated due to her declining health.
Green called her children on May 16 to tell them that their grandmother was not doing well and asked them to come to the hospital, according to the report.
They were all together in the ICU room when Green said, “I’m pulling out,” and removed her mother’s breathing tube, authorities reported.
An alarm sounded and medical staff rushed to the room. They started giving Green’s mother aid, but Green told them to stop and that she wanted her mother “to go in peace,” according to the report.
Her mother was pronounced dead a short time later.
Green was gone by the time detectives arrived at the hospital. However, they later found Green at her home, where she was taken into custody on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly or disabled adult.
According to the arrest report, Green is a licensed nurse practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in the medical field.
A judge ordered her to be held without bond during a court hearing over the weekend, WTVJ reported.
