CASPER —A 50-year-old Casper woman accused of tying a nursing home patient’s head to a bed with a scarf while she worked there in July pleaded not guilty Thursday in Natrona County District Court.

Julie Ann Cross , who was fired from the facility after the incident, stood in court beside her attorney Dylan Rosalez in a sweater and slacks, wearing a mask over her nose and mouth.

She has been free on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.

Natrona County District Court Judge Catherine Wilking went over the two charges that Cross faces: intentional abuse, neglect or abandonment of a vulnerable adult, a felony; and false imprisonment, a misdemeanor.

Wilking told Cross that the intentional abuse charge would involve her name being placed on a “central registry” that the state uses to identi

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