Angelite Nurses

Fri May 30, 9:13 PM ET

A former nurse accused of intentionally injecting two patients with bleach at an East Texas dialysis center was arrested Friday, police said.

The arrest warrant charges Kimberly Clark Saenz, 34, of Angelina County, with two counts of aggravated assault, a second degree felony. She was being booked into jail Friday afternoon. Bond was set at $200,000.

Two witnesses reported seeing Saenz draw bleach into syringes and inject the bleach into two dialysis lines on April 28, Lufkin police said in a news release.

Both DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin patients injected with bleach survived. One required treatment at a hospital, police said.

Police said that syringes and dialysis lines used on the patients were tested and bleach was found.

It was unclear Friday whether Saenz had an attorney.

The Lufkin center has been closed since April 28 for an investigation by authorities into a spike in deaths there of four patients in April. Lufkin police spokesman Lt. David Young told The Associated Press on Friday that the investigation remains open.

Saenz was fired from the center on April 29, said DaVita spokesman Michael Chee.

"We hope that this individual is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," said Chee, who added that they are continuing to work with the police and state health authorities.

El Segundo, California-based DaVita has more than 1,300 outpatient facilities across the U.S.

By AAP

The proud father of a "miracle baby" born in Darwin has described his wife's pregnancy as "a time bomb".

Durga Thangarajah is the only child in Australia - and possibly the world - to survive a full-term ovarian pregnancy.

But the healthy 2.8kg bundle was on Friday oblivious to all the fuss caused by her remarkable entry into the world at 8.47am(CST) on Thursday.

"This form of pregnancy is rare enough, but to have it full term is unheard of," said obstetrician Andrew Miller from Darwin Private Hospital.

"I have never come across it in any hospital ... .

"It truly is a miracle she got a living baby out of it."

Ovarian pregnancies are the rarest form of ectopic pregnancies and occur when the egg fails to travel down the fallopian tube and into the uterus.

Instead, the foetus fertilises inside the ovary itself.

Midwife Dee Keogh said the operating room was astonished when 34-year-old Meera Thangarajah was cut open to deliver her second child during a routine caesarean section at 38 weeks.

"We could see the baby straight away," she said.

"Normally the baby is inside the uterus (but) we could see the baby clearly, its hair, all its features. I think everybody just thought wow - she is one lucky lady."

Ovarian pregnancies affect one in every 40,000 pregnancies and are considered a life threatening complication, with pregnancies usually terminated before 10 weeks.

Ms Keogh said most expectant mothers suffering from the condition experienced pain or bleeding.

Ravi Thangarajah, 40, was all smiles as he spoke about his new daughter Durga, which means Goddess in Hindu.

"The doctor and the paediatrician came in and told me it was like a miracle baby, you're one of the luckiest men in the world at the moment," he said.

"When you look at all the odds against us. I work for Sportingbet Australia and people reckon it's all about the odds. I tell you we beat all the odds!"

Mr Thangarajah said he had to "go to Google" to find out about the condition.

"It's slowly sinking in for me what happened. They keep telling me how risky it was for the mother. We didn't know it was this time bomb," he said.

"It could have been a disaster."

As for his wife, still sore after a two-hour operation, she said the family was looking forward to going home in a week.

"When they told me about it, I just thought 'Oh, my goodness'," she said.

Eleven Prairie View A&M University nursing students were caught cheating on a comprehensive examination last month and were not allowed to graduate with their class, the university said.

The students, who were using cell phones to text-message other students who had finished the exam, will be allowed to re-enroll this fall and will be required to take a course in ethics. They also must take the examination again. If they pass, they will be allowed to graduate in December.

"We never want to have any type of break in our university policies," said Betty Adams, dean of the nursing school. "We always take it as a matter of criticality when there is one. We have a protocol in the university and believe in due process. We handled this as we would any other matter on any other day."

Other students noticed the cheating and reported it to faculty members who were present. An ensuing university investigation brought students before a student court.

"They did go through student hearings," said school spokesman Bryce Kennard. "These 11 'fessed up, if you will, but it was never clearly defined who precisely did what and how many were involved."

Ten of the students agreed to return in the fall. The 11th student has not responded, he said.

The examination takes four to five hours to complete. Students are allowed to take breaks and leave the room, Kennard said, however, the text-messaging was done while students were seated and taking the test.

Approximately 45 Prairie View nursing students graduated this spring.

mike.tolson@chron.com