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Friday 8 december 2017
Ex-Texas nurse pleads not guilty in 1980s deaths of 5 kids

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An tonio. She was brought into to be freed in March 2018 complications when Jones conference Wednesday.
imprisoned former nurse court in a wheelchair and under a mandatory release worked at a San Antonio He said they’ll first try the
who prosecutors believe wore a surgical mask. law that was in place when hospital and clinic in Ker- case of 11-month-old Josh-
could be responsible for Jones is serving concurrent she was convicted. rville, about 55 miles (90 ki- ua Sawyer, who investiga-
the deaths of up to 60 chil- 99-year and 60-year sen- Bexar County District At- lometers) to the northwest tors say died in 1981 of a
dren in Texas pleaded not tences in state prison for torney Nico LaHood said of San Antonio. fatal overdose of an anti-
guilty Thursday to murder the killing of 15-month-old each case will be tried sep- “This is an enormous step in seizure drug. “Our goal,
charges in the deaths of Chelsea McClellan and arately. Jones could face the right direction to secure my goal is that she takes
five children in the early the sickening of 4-week-old up to life in prison on each justice for these slain chil- her last breath from behind
1980s. Rolando Santos. Before the charge. dren, their families and our bars and she meets the
Genene Jones, 67, was ar- new charges were brought, Children died of unex- community as a whole,” Lord from behind bars,” La-
raigned Thursday in San An- Jones had been scheduled plained seizures and other LaHood said at a news Hood said Wednesday.q
Ex-policeman gets 20 years for Walter Scott slaying

By MEG KINNARD mother and brothers by
Associated Press their names.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — “With my actions that day,
One by one, relatives of Walter Scott is no longer
the late Walter Scott urged with his family, and I am re-
a judge to mete out a sig- sponsible for that,” Slager
nificant punishment for said.
Michael Slager, the white Of their forgiveness, he
former police officer who added: “I am very grateful
fatally shot Scott, an un- for that.”
armed black man, in the Slager’s emotions stood in
back after a 2015 traffic stark contrast to his stoic
stop. demeanor during his state
Through tears, Scott’s fam- murder trial when jurors
ily told Slager they felt sor- deadlocked over a verdict.
row for him and the loss his He has several weeks to ap-
young children would feel peal his sentence and will
in his absence. be housed at the Charles-
In the end, a judge sen- ton County jail until he’s as-
tenced Slager to 20 years signed to a federal prison.
in prison, giving the Scott After the sentencing, Judy
family the justice they had Scott and Walter’s two
sought ever since a strang- brothers told reporters
er came to them with the that, while they had made
shocking video of Scott be- Former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager testifies during his murder trial at the Charles- peace with the case, they
ing killed. ton County court in Charleston, S.C. Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday, Dec. 7, remained adamant the
“I forgive Michael Slager. 2017, for 2015 fatal shooting of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott. officer should pay for his
I forgive you,” Scott’s moth- (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool) crime.
er, Judy, said as she turned a rallying cry for the Black said he shot the 50-year-old Scott’s civil rights. “Who are we not to for-
toward her son’s killer. Lives Matter movement. Scott in self-defense after As part of a plea agree- give?” Rodney Scott said.
“I pray for you, that you Slager, 36, is one of only a the two fought and Scott ment reached in May, A bystander recorded the
would repent and let Jesus few police officers to go to grabbed Slager’s stun gun. prosecutors dropped state shooting on a cellphone,
come in your life.” prison for a fatal shooting, They said race didn’t play murder charges. and it was shared around
Sitting just a few feet away, and his sentence is by far a role in the shooting and “This is a tragedy that the world, setting off pro-
Slager wiped tears from his the stiffest since the shoot- Slager never had any “ra- shouldn’t have hap- tests across the U.S. as dem-
eyes and mouthed: “I’m ings came under extra cial animus” toward minori- pened,” U.S. District Judge onstrators said it was anoth-
sorry.” scrutiny in recent years. ties. David Norton said. er egregious example of
The punishment wrapped Attorneys for the former Still, Slager pleaded guilty Slager apologized to the police officers mistreating
up a case that became North Charleston officer in federal court to violating Scott family, calling Scott’s African-Americans.q
Michigan doctor gets 60-year prison sentence for child porn

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) ment in state court in Janu- trict Judge Janet Neff. She ery day of your sentence “He’s devastated, obvious-
— A former elite sports ary after pleading guilty to and Olympic gymnasts Aly to try to better myself.” Neff ly,” defense attorney Mat-
doctor whose sexual as- using his hands to molest Raisman and Gabby Doug- followed the government’s thew Newburg said outside
sault cases have rocked girls at his campus office, las say they are among his recommended sentence, court. The child porn was
Michigan State University his home and at a gym- assault victims. saying Nassar “should never discovered last year. Nas-
and the group that trains nastics club near Lansing, Nassar said he has an ad- again have access to chil- sar acknowledged that he
U.S. Olympic gymnasts was Michigan, sometimes with diction. dren.” She said the federal dumped computer hard
sentenced Thursday to 60 parents in the room. “You go back and you sentence won’t start until drives and paid $49 to
years in federal prison for McKayla Maroney, a mem- wonder how I got down this he completes his sentences have a laptop’s memory
possessing thousands of im- ber of the 2012 gold medal path to begin with,” he told for assault, which effective- wiped clean to try to out-
ages of child pornography. Olympic team, attended the judge. “I really did try to ly means the 54-year-old fox police. The hard drives
It’s the first of three prison the court hearing after de- be a good person. ... I hope won’t be free again. Nas- were found by investigators
sentences for Larry Nassar, scribing Nassar as a “mon- one day I can be forgiven, sar faces at least 25 years because the trash truck on
who will learn his punish- ster” in a letter to U.S. Dis- and I’m going to take ev- in prison in the other cases. his street was late.q