IN BRIEF

ADOPTED DAUGHTER ABUSED

Man gets prison term in molestation case

A Vietnam veteran who worked as a corrections officer in Nevada has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting his adopted daughter.

William Jensen, 61, was sentenced Friday in Kingman, Ariz., by Mohave County Court Commissioner Lee Jantzen. He was convicted of sexual conduct with a minor and attempted child molestation.

The victim, now 15, said that she was 5 years old when Jensen began sexually abusing her in the northwest Arizona community of Littlefield.

ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER

$2.5 million awarded in malpractice lawsuit

A Mohave County Superior Court jury in Kingman, Ariz., awarded nearly $2.5 million Thursday to a widow and her six children in a medical malpractice case.

The jury found that Dr. Muhammed Subhan and the Kingman Regional Medical Center were responsible for the 2005 death of Don Williams, 36.

Subhan supervises resident doctors who train at the clinic where Williams was treated for osteoarthritis. Plaintiff attorneys said negligence in a diagnosis of suspected gout combined with a prescription of colchicine proved to be lethal for Williams.

"The jury felt we were correct and awarded the amount of money it felt would correct that mistake," plaintiff attorney Richard Abbuhl said.

Brian Turney, chief executive officer for the medical center, said, "We believed and continue to believe that the care rendered by Dr. Subhan and the resident physicians had no relationship to the cause of Mr. Williams' death."