A FORMER front-desk night worker in Kermit Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion clinic was sentenced in federal court to 2 1/2 years in prison for her role in the illegal “pill-mill” case.

Lynda Williams, 45, had collected money and accepted tips in return for handing out illegal prescriptions for addictive painkillers.

She pleaded guilty in July 2012 to distribution of controlled substances and conspiracy.

Williams, most recently of Wilmington, Del., faces another sentencing Wednesday in Common Pleas Court on the more macabre aspects of the operations in Gosnell’s former abortion clinic, the Women’s Medical Society.

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According to the Kermit Gosnell Grand Jury Report, “Lynda Williams was hired to work full-time in 2008. She had previously worked with Gosnell at Atlantic Women’s Medical Services in Delaware, and had filled in from time to time at 3801 Lancaster Avenue. Gosnell originally hired Williams to clean instruments, but very…