MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A defense attorney says a former Wisconsin nurse is prepared to plead guilty to hurting infants in a Madison hospital's intensive care unit.

Forty-three-year-old Christopher Kaphaem faces 19 felony child abuse counts involving nine infants.

WKOW-TV reports Kaphaem's attorney, Jonas Bednarek, notified the court of the plea in a letter Monday.

Bednarek wrote that his client "is prepared to accept responsibility and enter pleas of guilty."

According to the complaint, police began investigating reports of injuries to infants in UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital's infant inten...