CLEVELAND (AP) — A home health-care aide accused of murdering a patient too ill to swallow by feeding the woman a bagel pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter.
The aide, Wanda Kanner, 49, was having an affair with the victim's husband. He had bought an engagement ring for Kanner before his wife's death.
Kanner also pleaded guilty to charges including theft by deception and practicing nursing without a license and could get up to 30 years in prison at sentencing April 2.
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The plea came in the middle of Kanner's trial in the 2001 death of Darlene Amberik, a multiple sclerosis patient. Amberik, 49, died after vomiting pieces of the bagel softened with milk and cream cheese into her airway.