An employee of a group home in Wethersfield is accused of assaulting a resident who lives with autism and has been arrested. Police also said two group home employees who are suspected of being involved were fired before the incident was reported to the police.

Police said they were notified around 1:30 p.m. on Oct 30 about an assault that had occurred days earlier at a group home on Eastern Drive in Wethersfield that HARC, Inc. administers.

The group home provides services for people with intellectual and physical disabilities 24 hours a day, seven days a week, according to police.

Investigators determined that an employee of the group assaulted a resident several times on Oct. 13, police said.

They said the victim is a 28-year-old woman who lives with autism and is non-verbal. She sustained several head and facial cuts and a closed fracture of the nasal bones.

An ambulance took the victim to the hospital.

Police said they obtained an arrest warrant charging 24-year-old Kendra Demudd, of Hartford, with assault of a person with intellectual disability in the second degree, reckless endangerment in the second degree and cruelty to persons.

She turned herself in to police on Wednesday and she is being held on a $50,000 court-set bond.

Demudd is due in New Britain Superior Court on Wednesday.

A mother in Connecticut is launching a desperate search for a necklace containing her son’s ashes which she lost while on a beach walk Wednesday.

Leslie Soyland realized that her most prized possession was no longer around her neck after returning home from a stroll at her local Calf Pasture Beach, in Norwalk.

Soyland had worn the necklace for ten years — receiving it at the wake of her son, Johnny, who died at age 27 in a car crash on Oct. 3, 2014, according to Connecticut News 12.

“It’s monetarily not worth much, but sentimentally, it’s everything,” Soyland told News 12. 

The jewelry features a small teardrop charm with a heart inside on a 30-inch chain and contains some of her departed son’s cremated remains.

“I just feel like I lost part of – sounds funny but — part of me, you know? And I’m sure there are a lot of people out there that don’t understand it, and probably think it’s strange, but it’s what I had all the time, and it just made me feel close to him, because we were very close,” Soyland told Eyewitness News.

She believes it slipped off her neck when she took a sweatshirt off during her walk on the beach.

The bereft mother says that she traced the steps of her usual 3-mile walk along the coast multiple times in search of the missing piece of personal memorabilia to no avail.

With no luck, she took to Facebook to ask for assistance from locals and was warmed by an overwhelming amount of support.

“There’s been just such an outpouring. I am overwhelmed. I feel so blessed,” Soyland told News 12 while tearing up.

Some neighbors have already made trips to Calf Pasture Beach seeking the lost amulet, according to the outlet — which ran into one such stranger with a metal detector by chance.

“Out of everything bad, something good happens. And the something good is so many people have reached out and so many people have shared things on Facebook and said, ‘Keep your eye out for this. It needs to get back to her.’ That’s touching. That’s an amazing thing,” Soyland told the news station.

Johnny left behind a son when he passed away.

“He was the best father bar none. He was amazing,” his mom said.

The necklace with his ashes has yet to be found.

Several Western Massachusetts officials are asking the state to fund $100 million to create the Connecticut River Watershed Fund as a part of the Environmental Bond Bill, which has been in the works for months in the Legislature.

The letter to Energy and Environment Secretary Rebecca Tepper was signed and supported by officials from seven cities and nine towns, 13 state legislators and two regional planning agencies as an effort to meet the watershed’s new needs brought on by human-caused climate change.

The Connecticut River runs from Quebec to the Long Island Sound, with 67.7 miles of the river and its tributaries running through Western Massachusetts.