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Austin nurse sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to abusing medically-fragile child

A former Austin nurse accused of repeatedly striking, choking and restricting the breathing of his patient — a non-verbal, bedridden, 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy — has been sentenced to 3.5 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, after pleading guilty in a case that prosecutors...

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