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Nurse Who Killed Patients Donates Kidney

Saturday, August 19, 2006 TRENTON, N.J. -- The former nurse who admitted killing 29 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has donated a kidney to a dying New York man. Surgery on Charles Cullen was performed early Saturday, his court-appointed attorney Johnnie Mask told The Star-Ledger of Newark. Mask said the surgery went well and the kidney is a perfect size because Cullen is so healthy. The kidney is expected to be brought by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island where it will be donated to a relative of Cullen's friend. Cullen has been waiting about a year to give the organ. He said last year he would skip his sentencing hearing unless he was allowed to donate the organ. In February, a judge agreed to allow the transplant and Cullen appeared before the victims'families the next month. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.