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Associated Press - December 21, 2009 9:14 AM ET
ALBION, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois man once accused in his 5-year-old stepson's medicine-related death has been ordered to spend seven years in prison on a drug count.
Twenty-5-year-old Joshua Nash pleaded guilty Friday in Edwards County to a felony count of delivering a controlled substance. Prosecutors dropped a charge of drug-induced homicide.
His wife, 25-year-old Crystal Nash, was sentenced three days earlier to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to drug-induced homicide and delivery of a controlled substance.
Authorities say Crystal Nash's son, Jason Hoy, died after ingesting a codeine-containing headache medicine in June. An autopsy determined the boy had eight times the recommended dosage.
The drug charge accused the Nashes of supplying some of the boy's medicine to a houseguest.
Information from: The Carmi Times, http://www.carmitimes.com
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