Nursing Home Aide Sentenced For Rape

Fri., March 28, 1997

Compiled From Wire Services

A former aide at a nursing home drew eight to 25 years in prison Thursday for raping and impregnating a patient while she was in a comalike state.

The 30-year-old woman, known only as Kathy, died March 18, a few days before her son’s first birthday. She had been injured in a 1985 car wreck.

John Horace, 53, was convicted last month.

The woman’s Roman Catholic family had ruled out an abortion and decided to raise the baby. Doctors said it was the first case of a woman in a comalike state becoming pregnant and giving birth.

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