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PHILADELPHIA – A Delaware woman who was a medical technician at a Philadelphia abortion clinic was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison for her role in the 2009 overdose death of a patient.

Bear resident Sherry West, 54, sat sobbing, head down on the defense table, after Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner imposed the sentence Thursday.

West pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and other charges, admitting that she administered some of the overdose of Demerol that killed 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar during an abortion at the clinic run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

Gosnell, who also worked at a Wilmington clinic, is serving three consecutive life sentences after being convicted of murder in the killing of babies born alive and viable during illegal late-term abortions.