ST. JOHNS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – A Clinton County caregiver will spend six months in jail and then serve two years of probation for her role in the 2022 freezing death of an elderly woman.

Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that 58-year-old Colleen Kelly O’Connor received her sentence after beng convicted in June of one count of Second-Degree Vulnerable Adult Abuse.

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Nessel said the 82-year-old woman was under O’Connor’s care at Vista Springs Imperial Park at Timber Ridge near East Lansing when she died of exposure after being left unsupervised on Dec. 23, 2022.

According to the Attorney General’s office, O’Connor saw the victim attempt to go outside twice without appropriate clothing into a blizzard with single-digit temperatures, subzero windchill, and drifting snow. Nessel said O’Connor recklessly failed to act to prevent the victim from going outdoors into the storm, resulting in her death.

A snowplow driver found the 82-year-old in the parking lot partially buried in snow. The woman died from hypothermia at a hospital.

In addition, O’Connor must pay $1,115.00 in restitution to the victim’s daughter.