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Posted March 16. 2018 2:06PM

Woman gets a year in jail for neglecting elderly woman's skin sore

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LACONIA — A local woman has been sentenced to one year in the Belknap County Corrections facility after pleading guilty to a felony charge of criminal neglect of an older adult.

Rachel Newton, 25, was sentenced Tuesday in Belknap County Superior Court. Newton was charged in March 2016 with failing to give medicine and/or medical care to an 88-year-old woman who was suffering from a serious skin ulcer.


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