Milbrandt’s daughter, Katie Harding, 24, of Springfield, was sentenced to 20 months in prison. Harding also pled guilty last month to two charges of deception to obtain a dangerous drug.
Milbrandt expressed contrition as she addressed Common Pleas Judge Richard O’Neill prior to sentencing Friday.
“I made a poor choice and I take full responsibility for that,” she said.
Police said Harding, who worked for a local doctor, ordered the prescriptions without the physician’s consent and sent them to various pharmacies to be picked up by Milbrandt, police said.
Though he had recommended probation for Harding to the court, Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Dan Driscoll said both sentences were “appropriate” to the facts of the case.
It's not the first prison stay for Milbrandt. She was accused in 2003 of fraudulently collecting more than $30,000 in donations for an illness her then 7-year-old daughter didn’t have.
Milbrandt was convicted in 2003 on grand theft and child endangerment charges and sentenced to 6½ years in prison.
She was released from prison in February of 2010.
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