POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - November 26, 2008
The Republican Herald reports that 58-year-old Robert Netchel,
of Mount Carmel, avoided a prison term by pleading guilty Tuesday
in Schuylkill County Court to recklessly endangering another person
and unlawful restraint.
Judge Charles Miller sentenced him to five years probation and
ordered him to pay costs.
Prosecutors dropped seven other counts including involuntary
manslaughter and kidnapping.
Netchel was accused of forcibly taking his mother from the
Schuylkill Center Nursing Home to his home April 30. An autopsy
found that stress from the incident resulted in Ruth Netchel's
death.
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