NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Two parents have been given 300 days in jail for child abuse in western Nebraska’s Lincoln County.
Online court records say 59-year-old James Burditt and 34-year-old Deborah Burditt were sentenced Monday. They both pleaded no contest to felony intentional child abuse after prosecutors dropped other charges.
The Burditts had a baby boy with special needs, including a feeding tube. A prosecutor said at a March plea hearing that the boy’s health seemed to decline rather than improve and that he missed appointments at an Omaha hospital. On Monday prosecutor Tanya Roberts-Connick said the boy is thriving since being removed from his parents’ home.