AUBURN - A local dentist received a three year conditional discharge when she was sentenced in Cayuga County Court Tuesday for giving her common-law husband forged prescriptions for Oxycontin, Oxycodon and Vicodin.

Cayuga County Judge Mark Fandrich said the only other punishment he would impose on Gilda Jusino-Delpozo, 47, of 19 Cayuga St., Auburn, was to prevent her from writing prescriptions for the next three years. Jusino-Delpozo could also have had her license revoked.

"Because of your community service you deserve some mercy, and I am going to give it to you," Fandrich said.

When she pleaded guilty on April 1, Jusino-Delpozo said she met her husband, who was a corrections officer at Auburn Correctional Facility, while she was practicing dentistry in the prison. After her husband began visiting a neurologist for migraines, Jusino-Delpozo said she was worried he would become addicted to the medicine the doctor prescribed, so she attempted to monitor what he was using.

After Jusino-Delpozo pleaded guilty, Fandrich told her that if she completed 300 hours of community service providing free dentistry services, he would consider the conditional discharge instead of shock probation, which would have required some time in jail.

During the sentencing, Fandrich said Jusino-Delpozo completed 315 hours of community service, and that he had also received several letters of recommendation from the organizations that she worked with.

"The Salvation Army said you were excellent worker and they were pleased to have you work for them," Fandrich said.