DAYTON, OHIO: A nurse serving a 10-year prison sentence in the malnutrition death of an Ohio teenager with cerebral palsy has pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
The Dayton Daily News reports that 45-year-old Mollie Parsons reached a plea deal on Monday in Dayton. She will serve between three and five years in federal prison after her state sentence if a federal judge accepts the deal.
Parsons is expected to be sentenced in May.
She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2011 death of 14-year-old Makayla Norman, who weighed 28 pounds. Parsons was supposed to administer care to Makayla at her Dayton home.
The federal indictment claimed Parsons and others schemed to defraud Medicaid. It said Parsons repeatedly submitted fraudulent information about nursing services and caused Medicaid to lose thousands.