Norman pleaded guilty last month to involuntary manslaughter.
Makayla Norman, who had cerebral palsy, was covered in bedsores, living in filth and starved to the point that she looked more like a skeleton than a teenager when she died March 1, 2011, just minutes after medics got her to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office concluded Makayla died from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition, ruling the death a homicide. A coroner’s official called her “the worst malnourished child I think we’ve ever seen.”
Three nurses responsible for providing or supervising the care of Makayla also are facing charges in her death.
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