A former Long Island high school teacher accused of injecting a teen with a COVID-19 vaccine at her home without his parents' knowledge pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to community service and probation.
MINEOLA, New York --pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was sentenced to community service and probation, avoiding a felony charge that could have sent her to prison.pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempting the unauthorized practice of medicine
when she appeared in a courtroom in Mineola, New York, on Friday. She also pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. Russo was arrested at the beginning of January, and authorities accused her of giving the 17-year-old, the son of someone she knew, a vaccine dose.Authorities said the teen later told his parents, who called police. Prosecutors had initially charged her with the unauthorized practice of profession, a felony with a penalty of up to four years in prison.On Friday, Judge Howard Sturim ordered her to fulfill 100 hours of community service over a year, while under interim probation.
Russo's attorney, Gerard McCloskey, told Newsday the plea agreement "was in the interest of justice as well as in my client's best interest."
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