Caregiver pleads guilty to elderly abuse

ALBANY - The former president of an Albany personal care home was sentenced to six months in a detention center and four years of probation and agreed never to operate another home for her involvement in the death of an 82-year-old man. <br> <br> Sixty-year-old Pearlie Johnson was charged with murder after James Burton died in 1999, a week after being removed from her facility. <br> <br> Johnson pleaded guilty July 10 to cruelty to a person over the age of 65 as part of an agreement in which prosecutors dropped murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. <br> <br> Chief Dougherty Superior Court Judge Loring Gray also ordered Johnson to pay a $3,500 fine. <br> <br> Authorities determined that infection, malnutrition and dehydration may have contributed to Burton&#39;s death.

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