3 take plea deals in autistic student’s death at troubled Guiding Hands school

Three staffers at a now-closed El Dorado Hills school indicted in the death of a 13-year-old student with autism spectrum disorder while in their care have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the boy’s 2018 death.

Guiding Hands school teacher Kimberly Wohlwend pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for her role in the death of 13-year-old Max Benson of Davis.

Guiding Hands’ former site administrator, Cindy Keller, and its principal, Staranne Meyers, each pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of child endangerment, according to the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office…

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