Palms West beating: Judge denies bail, house arrest for patient arrested in attack on nurse

(This story was updated because because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.)

WEST PALM BEACH — A judge has ordered that the man accused of beating a nurs e at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital and fracturing “essentially every bone” in her face remain in jail without bail.

Stephen Scantlebury, 33, from Wellington, is facing a charge of attempted second-degree murder in the Feb. 18 attack on Leelamma Lal, a 67-year old nurse from Royal Palm Beach who remains in critical condition at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and may lose her eyesight…

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