FREMONT, Neb. (AP) — An Arlington woman has pleaded no contest to a charge related to the death of a patient who was burned after falling asleep near a fireplace.

23-year-old Anne T. Pavlik entered a no contest plea to a misdemeanor charge in the death of 82-year-old Bernard Batten at a Fremont memory care center.

Investigators determined Batten awoke early on Feb. 12 and eventually sat in a chair. Pavlik, who as the only staffer on duty, didn’t notice he then pulled his chair near a burning fireplace and fell asleep.

She later found Batten was badly burned. He died the next day at a hospital.

An autopsy shows he died of natural causes and burns.

Pavlik will be sentenced Nov. 29 and faces up to a year in prison.