Nurse’s aide sent to prison in elder abuse case
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MAY 20, 2009
A 27-year-old nurse’s aide who authorities say abused an elderly couple by urinating in the woman’s hair and pouring liquid soap on her husband’s head has been sentenced to one year behind bars.
Timothy Andrew Carl of Muskegon County’s Laketon Township was sentenced Tuesday in Muskegon County Circuit Court. He also was ordered to spend five years on probation and continue mental health treatment.
Carl apologized in court to the victims’ family for “betraying their trust.”
Carl pleaded no contest but mentally ill last month to first-degree abuse of a vulnerable adult. A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt, but is treated as such for sentencing purposes.
Prosecutors say the abuse happened Feb. 22, 2008, at the couple’s Muskegon Township home.
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