Ohio nurse sentenced in girl’s starvation
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"2 Ohio nurses get probation in malnutrition death" by AMANDA LEE MYERS |
Associated Press, October 25, 2012
CINCINNATI — Two nurses were sentenced to probation Wednesday in the
malnutrition death of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and
weighed 28 pounds when she died, avoiding a sentence of up to 1½ years
in prison.
Mary Kilby of Miamisburg and Kathryn Williams of Englewood were
sentenced to up to five years’ probation in the Montgomery County Court
of Common Pleas in Dayton stemming from the March 1, 2011, death of
Makayla Norman.
Authorities say the teen had numerous bed sores and was living in
filthy conditions when she died from nutritional and medical neglect
complicated by cerebral palsy in what a coroner said at the time was the
‘‘worst malnourished child’’ his office had ever seen.
Kilby, 64, and Williams, 43, had pleaded no contest to charges of
failing to provide for a functionally impaired child and could have
faced up to 18 months in prison at their sentencing.
As part of Wednesday’s sentence, both women had to agree to surrender
their nursing licenses and will no longer be allowed to practice in
Ohio.
They both still face misdemeanor charges in a juvenile court that
could carry prison time and have a status conference scheduled for
Monday. The trial in that court has not yet been scheduled.
The nurses’ lawyers said that they had much less significant roles in Makayla’s death than the teen’s mother and another nurse.
Her mother, Angela Norman of Dayton, was sentenced to nine years in
prison stemming from the death. The other nurse, Mollie Parsons, is set
for trial Nov. 5.
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