Kimberly Holzlein & Jill Hillard fed mentally challenged resident urine & feces

[RaVen Blackehart]

TUNKHANNOCK TWP. – Two women were charged Friday for allegedly abusing a mentally challenged woman by tricking her to drink urine and eat feces at a residential group home in Wyoming County.

Kimberly A. Holzlein, 26, and Jill L. Hillard, 36, both of Tunkhannock, were arraigned on charges of simple assault, reckless endangerment, neglect of a care dependent person, harassment, disorderly conduct and criminal conspiracy.

Both women were released on $20,000 unsecured bail.

County detectives alleged that Holzlein and Hillard, both employees of the Association for Retarded Citizens, placed feces and urine into her food and drink at the group home at 15 Birch Drive, Tunkhannock Township.

The pair were both dismissed from their employment with ARC for allegations of abuse between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 10, 2008.

Holzlein and Hillard, both dismissed from their employment with ARC, allegedly placed feces in pudding, bugs in a sandwich and fed it to the client they were responsible of caring for.

They are also accused of placing urine in the woman’s lemonade and had her drink it.

District Attorney George Skumanick Jr. said the client who is in her early 40s is currently being cared for at a different facility.

On March 31, Lori Bennet, interim executive director for the ARC of Wyoming County and Serena Helferich, program specialist, reported the allegations of abuse to the District Attorney’s Office, the criminal complaint states.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/ARC_...5-09-2009.html

[jus shaking my head]

What hole do these slugs keep crawling out of continually? To do this is the same as child abuse.

Hope they fry in hell.

[Tazzzz]

EWwwwww thats just nastey.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

The second of two women accused of neglecting a mentally challenged woman in their care pleaded guilty in Wyoming County Court on Friday morning.

Kimberly Holzlein, 27, of Tunkhannock, was charged with neglect of a care-dependent person while she was an employee of ARC of Wyoming County.

It's the same charge that co-worker Jill Hillard, 36, of Tunkhannock, pleaded guilty to a month ago.
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Both Holzlein and Hillard are awaiting sentencing. They each face a maximum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

http://www.citizensvoice.com/news/se...urine-1.462869

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Two women accused of neglecting and feeding feces and urine to a mentally challenged woman in their care were sentenced to jail on Wednesday.

Kimberly Holzlein, 27, of Dendron Drive, Tunkhannock, and Jill Hillard, 36, of Meshoppen, each were ordered to serve from 30 days to one year in prison.
[...]

During the sentencing hearing, Ms. Hillard's attorney, Chad Salsman, said although his client admitted to urinating in a lemonade bottle, the woman never actually consumed it.

"She never actually harmed the victim in this case," Mr. Salsman said of Ms. Hillard. "She's extremely sorry. She's extremely embarrassed."

In addition, Mr. Salsman said he had letters from some of Ms. Hillard's friends about her character.

Ms. Holzlein's attorney, Demetrius Fannick, noted he had similar letters on his client's behalf.

Judge Vanston said he has given considerable thought to the sentences imposed on the two women.

"It's kind of hard for this court to get past the impact on the victim," the judge said. "I've had a hard time understanding how it got to that point."

In addition to jail time, each woman was ordered to pay a $300 fine.

Ms. Hillard was taken to jail immediately. Ms. Holzlein was given until Jan. 20 to turn herself in so that she could arrange for care of her infant child.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/wom...woman-1.544583

Mrs. Holzlein, a criminal justice graduate of Keystone College who had served an internship in the Wyoming County Juvenile Probation office, implicated herself, according to the affidavit.

It quoted her saying, "I did these things out of frustration because I had enough" of working with a specific client.
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He added that the victim was a "completely care-dependent client" and that after the incident she was voluntarily hospitalized in a psychiatric facility, believed to be related to the incident.

The affidavit said internal allegations arose in September 2008, and when questioned by her ARC supervisors, Mrs. Holzlein told the truth and was fired.

Mrs. Hillard was also fired.

According to the affidavit, Mrs. Holzlein noted that she was remorseful for her actions.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/two...d-woman-1.9905

I can not imagine EVER having a friend that would do this. If I did, the LAST thing I would ever do is write the judge about their character. The FIRST thing I would do is un-friend them in every way possible.

I wonder how much remorse they would have if they hadn't been caught?

[crickett]

Once I found out a so-called "friend" of mine had done this, I would question MY judgement and immediatley drop them. Write letters praising their character. WTF??? Please THINK about what they DID. NOW what do you think of their "character"?

[Jerri Blank]

What hole do these slugs keep crawling out of continually? To do this is the same as child abuse.

Hope they fry in hell.

That was my first thought too.

That would be like me saying "well my baby was doing what babies do yanno, crying, shitting, teething, and I had enough and pissed in his bottle!"

...As a Mother I fully realize how incredibly disturbing that is. I have my frustrating days but I knew that when I decided to be a parent that would happen once in awhile and never in my wildest dreams would blame my baby for being a baby.

These people are EMPLOYED to do this job. did they not realize that they worked for a place called 'Association for Retarded Citizens'?

I'm also wondering, did they agree to employment with some retarded cult and sign their W2's in blood or something, because apparently they are not allowed to simply quit their ever so frustrating jobs and felt so compelled to shit in pudding and piss in lemon aid as a way to vent their displeasure.

this is kinda like those people riding around on old folks at that nursing home, it was the Geritol rodeo or something, I recall they had the same argument.

people seriously need to give some thought to a line of work before they actually go after the job.

[this is going badly]

It says they are "embarrassed". Right. Embarrasssed that they got caught and now people know what they are.

I hope that when their names a googled this is the first thing that comes up for years and they stay extreamly embassassed for a long time.

[Pennie]

I am not shocked by this at all. It probably happens way more often then anyone knows. People like friends and family always give my sister a hard time for not sending my now adult nephew to a "facility" that can better care for him. He suffered a terrible TBI and had a radical brain surgery procedure when he was 16 and will need to be cared for for the rest of his life. Stories like this are why my sister keeps him home. This is probably mild in comparison to what some other sick fuckers do to mentally challenged people in facilitates that are supposed to take care of them.

[LestYeBeJudged]

How do these people find each other? One person doing it is bad enough, but to find someone on the same sick wave-length... that has to be some crazy odds!

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I am not shocked by this at all. It probably happens way more often then anyone knows. People like friends and family always give my sister a hard time for not sending my now adult nephew to a "facility" that can better care for him. He suffered a terrible TBI and had a radical brain surgery procedure when he was 16 and will need to be cared for for the rest of his life. Stories like this are why my sister keeps him home. This is probably mild in comparison to what some other sick fuckers do to mentally challenged people in facilitates that are supposed to take care of them.

It has been my experience that most people that work with the handicapped as a career have a genuine love and interest in this type of work. Not only did I work for years with the elderly and handicapped but several family members do and we also have family in group home and long term care situations. Common sense dictates that you check out the home, their staff, and keep tabs on it on an ongoing basis.

I recently explained it to a friend of a handicapped child/adult like this: Seek care for your child while you are alive and capable of doing so and able to monitor things. If you do not, you are leaving all the decisions to the state and fate if something should happen to you. Not only that, but turning over the physical care and management allows you to actually concentrate on the fun part of the relationship with your kid.

It takes very special people to care for the very special members of our society. They are out there in great numbers. Letting stories like this color the whole field does a great disservice to so many good things that happen on a daily basis. The staff at my sister's group home are like family to us. They would no sooner allow that type of crap to happen than any one of the "blood" family would.