Parents get 300 days for abuse of boy with special needs

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) - Two parents have been given 300 days in jail for child abuse in western Nebraska’s Lincoln County.

Online court records say 59-year-old James Burditt and 34-year-old Deborah Burditt were sentenced Monday. They both pleaded no contest to felony intentional child abuse after prosecutors dropped other charges.

The North Platte Telegraph reports (https://bit.ly/2prWu26) the Burditts had a baby boy with special needs, including a feeding tube. A prosecutor said at a March plea hearing that the boy’s health seemed to decline rather than improve and that he missed appointments at an Omaha hospital. On Monday prosecutor Tanya Roberts-Connick said the boy is thriving since being removed from his parents’ home.

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Information from: The North Platte Telegraph, https://www.nptelegraph.com