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DA: Smithtown nurses abandoned kids on respirators

Suffolk County prosecutors went ahead with child endangerment charges against 10 nurses Thursday, even though a state agency cleared them of wrongdoing. Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Leonard Lato

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Mar 23, 2007, 2:18 PM

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