Mother pleads guilty in malnutrition death

Associated Press

CINCINNATI

The mother of a 14-year-old girl who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died last year pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges Friday in southwest Ohio.

Angela Norman, 42, of Dayton, entered the pleas in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court in Dayton, north of Cincinnati, court officials said.

Norman pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony count of involuntary manslaughter and to single misdemeanor and felony counts of endangering children.

Norman’s daughter, Makayla Norman, had numerous bed sores and showed other signs of neglect when she died March 1, 2011, according to authorities. Angela Norman was indicted on the three counts last November. Three nurses who authorities said were to administer or monitor the girl’s care also were charged.

Norman had been scheduled for trial April 18 with the other three defendants.

The county coroner’s office attributed the teen’s death to nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition.