By Associated Press - Wednesday, August 15, 2018

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The owner of an Indianapolis group home for people with physical and mental disabilities and three of her employees face felony charges for their alleged roles in a resident’s beating.

Marion County prosecutors say Safe Journey LLC owner Amelia Hagedorn is charged with criminal confinement with bodily injury and battery bodily injury to a disabled person for the July incident at an Indianapolis group home.

Three workers face the same felony charges and a fourth faces a misdemeanor charge. Court records don’t list attorneys for the defendants.



Court documents say a woman resident told investigators Hagedorn struck her with a ball July 12 after she threw it at Hagedorn. Prosecutors say a video shows home workers holding the woman down as a co-worker strikes her in the head and face.

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