{"id":1455832,"date":"2025-11-06T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1455832"},"modified":"2025-11-08T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T11:16:05","slug":"nurse-pleads-guilty-to-harming-disabled-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1455832","title":{"rendered":"Former nurse gets five years in prison for child assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1455833\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/nursetoon-207x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/nursetoon-207x200.png 207w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/nursetoon.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><strong>Update <\/strong> &#8211;  Gabrielle Erin Toon of Tyler, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to physically assaulting a disabled minor. <\/p>\n<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A 27-year-old Tyler nurse has pleaded guilty four months after a video surfaced of her physically assaulting a disabled minor. According to our news partner KETK, Gabrielle Erin Toon pleaded guilty on Oct. 30 to a third-degree charge of injury to a child following her July arrest, her defense team confirmed. While the state offered a straight probation sentence, the defense requested deferred adjudication. Sentencing is scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Toon\u2019s case first came to light after the child\u2019s grandparents reported to the Tyler Police Department that Toon, a live-in nurse, had been seen on video smacking and aggressively pushing their granddaughter while responsible for her care during evening hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, the child is immobile, non-verbal, dependent on nighttime oxygen, has a chronic lung disease and had a kidney transplant. The video, captured on July 1, shows Toon slapping the child multiple times and pushing her head onto a pillow while demanding she go to sleep.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The affidavit notes that the slap was \u201chard enough to be heard on the camera\u201d and that the child instinctively raised her arm in response.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of the footage, officials confirmed Toon\u2019s identity through her employment agency. She was subsequently arrested and charged with intentionally and knowingly causing bodily injury. Toon remains in the Smith County Jail pending sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update &#8211; Gabrielle Erin Toon of Tyler, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to physically assaulting a disabled minor. SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A 27-year-old Tyler nurse has pleaded guilty four months after a video surfaced of her physically assaulting a disabled minor. According to our news partner KETK, Gabrielle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1455832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former nurse gets five years in prison for child assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1456056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/nursetoon-207x200.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 15:53:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/nursetoon-207x200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455832"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456417,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455832\/revisions\/1456417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}