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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 morning hours of Oct. 13, police said. The attack left the autistic woman with a broken nose and head trauma.
Prosecutors said the woman kept trying to leave her room while Demudd needed her to stay. That's when investigators allege she threw a blanket and pillow over the 28-year-old's head and repeatedly punched, slapped, and pushed her, per NBC Connecticut.
She was briefly hospitalized to treat the wounds, police said.
Demudd and another staffer at HARC were fired following the incident, however, administrators there did not report the alleged attack until weeks later on Wednesday, Oct. 30, Wethersfield Police said.
Demudd turned herself over to police on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
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