BROWNFIELD, Texas (AP) - Two former nurses at a West Texas nursing home have accepted plea bargains in connection with the freezing death of a 71-year-old patient in 2011.
Texas attorney general spokeswoman Teresa Farfan told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (https://bit.ly/1fG7cgY ) that Edna Faye Stowe got a two-year deferred sentence after pleading guilty to injury to the elderly by omission.
Farfan says that Jon Kirksey was sentenced to time served after he pleaded guilty to tampering with a governmental record for a false entry in the death record of Willie Byers.
An investigation by the Texas Department of Aging and Disabilities Services found that Byers died of hypothermia outside a Brownfield nursing home after spending four hours outside as temperatures dipped into single digits.
The two lost their nursing licenses as a result.
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Information from: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, https://www.lubbockonline.com
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