Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 | 4:31 p.m.
The Nevada state attorney general's office says a 70-year-old former elder home health caregiver was sentenced to one year of probation and fined $250 after pleading an equivalent of no contest to a patient abuse charge.
Nellie Magtaas was sentenced Monday by Clark County District Court Judge Melisa De La Garza following her plea on a misdemeanor neglect charge.
Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto says the judge also gave the former Garden of Eden Home Care owner a suspended 30-day jail sentence.
Masto says the complaint stemmed from a Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance complaint about a resident who fell at the facility.
Magtaas's lawyer didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
North Las Vegas,
NV
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