Nebraska Woman Pleads in Child Abuse Case

(Lincoln, Nebraska) In May 2010, a 38-year-old local woman, Kami N. Gordon, was arrested for the alleged inappropriate touching of a 4-year-old child and for allegedly smoking marijuana in front of the child.

Gordon has been charged with felony child abuse.

This week, Gordon pleaded no contest to child abuse.

In court Thursday, she seemed to be reluctant in offering her plea and said she felt the prosecutor had scared her into it by saying he would increase the charges if she didn't.

"I feel I have been put in a corner," Gordon said.

But in the end, she said she still wished to plead no contest.

Gordon faces a possible five-year prison term when sentenced on January 19.