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2 ex-state workers get probation in pool fatality

By Brian R. Ballou

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 08, 2012

Two former state workers who oversaw a Fall River pool where a woman drowned last year - and her body went unnoticed for two days - were sentenced yesterday to a year of probation. Brian Shanahan, 60, the former regional director for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, and Jeff Carter, a former district manager, had been charged with reckless endangerment of a child, a misdemeanor, in their mismanagement of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pool.

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