UPDATE: Kern County Superior confirms information/pre-preliminary hearings

I spoke with the criminal division at the Kern County Superior court and verified that our initial interpretation and reports were correct as stated on the county's website.
Pharmacist, Debbi Hayes, has plead to one count of conspiracy (penal code 182 A 5) and the other ten charges regarding elder abuse were dismissed.
Though she was sentenced to one year, the sentence is suspended, but she will have three years probation.

Likely, and only supposition here, she will end up being a witness for the prosecution/state in the other criminal cases.

But with the investigation reopened in the case of the leadership, which included, former Kern Valley Healthcare District, CEO, Pam Ott, we may likely see other indictments in this case.

I want to tell the families of the residents from the skilled nursing facility that we have fought for almost 3 years now to get the truth out and bring justice.

We are teetering on the brink of truth as of today. We are looking at potential justice as of today. Something we all could not see through the smokescreen set up by leftover members of the board of administrators whom I have spoke about repeatedly on this blog.

I also want to tell the employees who were fired, defamed, blamed, that you have your chance to tell the story, so please do it.

Currently, the word is that there is a motion for an extension on the pre-pre, and preliminary hearings that were to take place tomorrow and Wednesday, Aug. 18/19.

The extension, of course, has to be approved tomorrow, but as of right now, there is an assumption that the dates will be changed.

In the meantime, we are waiting for word on any other indictments likely to come through.

I will update the blog regularly as information comes in.

Though I may be in Bakersfield at the court tomorrow, I will make sure that the news comes fast, so watch the blog.

(Now, I have to change out of my pajamas and leave the house to cover the story? Get me my stick and sunglasses, and of course a ride, and here we go looking for justice.)