Women charged with abuse of group home resident
May 12th, 2009AP/Philadelphia Inquirer, WNEP-TV, [Scranton, PA] Times-Tribune:
Two women who were employed by the ARC to care for a woman with intellectual disabilities stand accused of abusing her by tricking her into drinking urine and eating feces in a residential group home in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming County.
Kimberly A. Holzlein, 26, and Jill L. Hillard, 36, were charged with assault, reckless endangerment, neglect of a care dependent person, harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal conspiracy.
Both have been released on $20,000 bail, and both have been fired.
A court affadavit quoted Holzlein as saying “I did these things out of frustration because I had enough.” Hillard denies the charges.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 5:35 am and is filed under abuse, caregivers, criminal justice, group homes, intellectual/developmental disabilities.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Email This Post
Our RSS Feed