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Ex-Staffer At CT Group Home Attacked Autistic Patient, Broke Their Nose: Police Ex-Staffer At CT Group Home Attacked Autistic Patient, Broke Their Nose: Police
Ex-Staffer At CT Group Home Attacked Autistic Patient, Broke Their Nose: Police Police in Connecticut are investigating a former group home employee who is accused of attacking an autistic patient so violently that the non-verbal woman needed to be hospitalized, authorities said.  Kendra A. Demudd, 28, of Hartford, was arrested and charged with assault on a person with an intellectual disability, reckless endangerment, and cruelty to persons, Wethersfield Police said. She was being held on a $50,000 bond.  Demudd, a former employee at HARC, a group home on Eastern Drive in Wethersfield, is accused of repeatedly assaulting the 28-year-old resident in the early…