A Nevada elementary faculty trainer has admitted to drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of kids — together with a 2-year-old neighbor, in accordance with police.
Taji Hillson, 62, was arrested in Reno on July 2, a day after she penned an apology to a relative who accused her of sexually assaulting her “throughout her childhood and adulthood,” in accordance with a police report obtained by the Reno Gazette Journal.
The now-adult accuser filed a police report in April — proving textual content messages of the elementary faculty trainer admitting to “drugging her and touching her inappropriately,” in accordance with court docket paperwork.
“The defendant admitted to giving her [the alleged victim] Benadryl to sedate her by sneaking it in her food,” then touching the lady whereas she slept, police wrote of their report.
When interviewed by police on June 25, Hillson allegedly admitted abusing the lady all through her childhood, persevering with when she returned dwelling from school in 2014 — blaming it on how “she never felt seen and desired to be close to another person,” the court docket docs mentioned.
Hillson admitted to inappropriately touching a minimum of a dozen different youngsters — together with a 2-year-old neighbor at a neighborhood pool inside the previous few years, police mentioned.
She has been charged in two of the circumstances, police mentioned — stressing that none of these abused seem like college students.
“The allegations in this case are deeply disturbing,” Washoe County District Legal professional Chris Hicks mentioned in a press release, saying that alleged victims embrace “a toddler.”
“I commend the extraordinary courage of the adult victim who came forward to report this abuse; a brave act that has allowed us to seek justice and protect others from harm.”
Hilson was employed at Roy Gomm Elementary Faculty from 2022 by June 2025, in accordance with the Reno Gazette. Police mentioned there isn’t a proof that Hillson harmed any college students whereas employed on the faculty, per the outlet.
She was charged with one depend of sexual assault of a kid underneath 14, one depend of sexual assault and three counts of lewdness with a baby underneath 14, in accordance with Washoe County Sheriff’s Workplace (WCSO) information present.
Her bail was set at $5 million.
