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OCONTO – A Pulaski woman was sentenced Tuesday to nine years in prison for neglecting children at her unlicensed home day care who suffered serious injuries and emotional trauma.
After the prison time, Nicole M. Brewer, 37, will spend 18 years on extended supervision, Oconto County Judge James Morrison decided.
Morrison said a lengthy term of incarceration and oversight by the Department of Corrections was necessary to serve a deterrent to other people who might be tempted to provide child care without proper state certification.
“The biggest thing we have to do today at this sentencing is to say to every other person who’s running a day care facility in northeastern Wisconsin who’s not licensed, who’s overburdened, who doesn’t have the ability to do the job, who doesn’t report immediately the first time an injury occurs so that the problem can be fixed they need to know the price for that is horrific for the provider,” Morrison said.