Mankato senior care employee charged for sexually assaulting resident
Mankato senior care employee charged for sexually assaulting resident By KEYC Staff | March 10, 2021 at 7:44 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 7:44 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) An employee at a Mankato senior care facility is accused of sexually assaulting a resident.
Authorities in Mankato said they were called Monday night to The Pillars of Mankato Senior Living on suspicion of sexual assault on a resident in their 80s with Alzheimer’s.
A relative close to the woman reported that he saw the assault through cameras located in the woman’s room.
Olabamidele Olumide Bewaji was charged with felony counts of criminal sexual conduct Tuesday in Blue Earth County District Court.
Mankato woman pleads guilty to death of 16-month-old son
Mankato woman pleads guilty to death of 16-month-old son By KEYC Staff | March 1, 2021 at 8:40 PM CST - Updated March 1 at 8:40 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) A Mankato woman pleaded guilty Monday to the death of her 16-month-old son.
Chelsea Rae Olinger, 28, entered a guilty plea on charges of first-degree manslaughter. She was also charged with second and third-degree murder, first-degree assault and malicious punishment of a child.
Olinger was arrested in February 2020 after she brought her child to the hospital in Mankato. The boy was then transferred to Mayo Clinic in Rochester with a brain injury, compression fractures of two vertebrae, seven broken ribs, a laceration of the liver, and numerous bruises.
Suspect arrested in connection to armed burglary, assault
Suspect arrested in connection to armed burglary, assualt By KEYC Staff | January 27, 2021 at 1:11 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 6:50 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) Mankato police made an arrest in connection with an armed burglary and assault that happened early Wednesday morning.
Police responded to the 500 block of Joseph’s Path in Mankato at 12:25 a.m. Authorities say they arrested Qalid Hussein Jama, who was allegedly armed with a handgun during the burglary.
“The victims were reporting a person had come to the door and entered the residence and they had sheltered in place,” said Dan Schisel, associated director at the Mankato Department of Public Safety. “When officers arrived the suspect had fled out the back door.”