June 17, 2008
Ex-state school worker gets 5 years in burn case
ABILENE, Texas — A former Abilene State School worker who burned a
severely disabled woman’s face with a hair dryer was sentenced to five
years in prison.
Benjamin Kershaw, 33, of Abilene was sentenced Monday after being
convicted in April of recklessly causing serious bodily injury to a
disabled person, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum penalty
of 20 years in prison.
“The interesting thing about this case was that the judge found that
the hair dryer was a deadly weapon,” said Taylor County prosecutor
Lynn Peach.
The 35-year-old blind, deaf quadriplegic cannot speak but managed to
scream in pain, Peach said. She has scars after suffering
second-degree burns to her face, and she continues living in the
facility for the mentally and developmentally disabled because she has
no family, Peach said.
Kershaw, who was fired shortly after the 2006 incident, testified
that the burning was an accident, the prosecutor said. He said he was
trying to get her to turn her head so he could dry the other side of
her hair.
Kershaw’s attorney Sam Mehaffey, who had sought probation for his
client, did not immediately return calls to The Associated Press
seeking comment.
Link: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5842948.html
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