ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — Ryley Maue, a 4-year-old boy with severe disabilities, died more than a year ago after he was deprived of the medication that kept him alive.
On Thursday, a federal grand jury in Grand Rapids indicted his former in-home nurse on charges she tampered with those meds. She has already admitted to stealing it for herself.
Kristie Ann Mollohan, formerly of Kalamazoo, faces up to 30 years in prison in all on three federal charges.
For Ryley's mom, that's not enough.
"I wish it was more," Toni Ward said on Thursday.
Ward's son suffered from cerebral palsy, was bedridden, and needed Valium to control seizures and keep him alive.
As an in-home care nurse, it was Mollohan's job to give him that medicine. Instead, she's accused of stealing it and watering it down to make it look like nothing was missing.
Ryley died in August 2016 of a seizure, a death later ruled a homicide.