JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A Will County man has received a 4 ½-year prison sentence for neglecting his elderly mother.

Prosecutors say 51-year-old Mark Kuech of New Lenox was sentenced Thursday, three months after pleading guilty to criminal abuse for leaving his 79-year-old mother, Margaret Kuech, unattended in a basement bedroom for extended periods of time between May and November of 2012.

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