State drops vulnerable neglect charges against 2 Rock Hill women

The 16th Circuit Solicitor’s Office has dismissed charges against two women accused of neglecting a vulnerable adult earlier this year.

Lauren Caitlin Timberlake, 26, and Angela Carol Kordelski, 27, had been charged with violating the state’s Vulnerable Adult Act.

The alleged victim’s daughter told officers in February that Timberlake and Kordelski had moved in with her 46-year-old mother to assist with her living conditions, according to a Rock Hill police report. The daughter claimed the women left her mother unattended long enough that she soiled herself in her bed, and that some of her pain medication had been stolen.

Each woman was charged with one count of neglect or abuse with great bodily injury of a vulnerable adult. Those charges were dismissed earlier this month.

Police said at the time that an investigation revealed that Timberlake and Kordelski had failed to provide basic care, such as bathing and changing linens.

However, prosecutors said this month that they couldn’t proceed with the case.

“Based on my investigation of the case, the victim of the case did not meet the definition of a vulnerable adult,” Assistant Solicitor Misti Shelton said Tuesday. “I couldn’t get any further information, because neither the victim nor her children would come in and talk with me about the case.”

Timberlake still faces a charge of possession of a controlled substance in connection with the case, Shelton said. She also has a pending charge of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in an unrelated case.

This story was originally published July 21, 2015 at 5:25 PM with the headline "State drops vulnerable neglect charges against 2 Rock Hill women."