The jury trial for 20-year-old Brianna Broitzman, who faces multiple charges related to alleged abuse of residents at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea, has been scheduled for April 2010.

According to scheduling in Broitzman’s file, the jury trial will be April 12, with the pre-trial March 26.

The trial date for co-defendant Ashton Larson, 19, who faces similar charges as Broitzman, has not yet been set. She is scheduled to appear for a contested omnibus hearing later this month.

Both young women face 11 charges ranging from fifth-degree assault, criminal abuse of a vulnerable adult, disorderly conduct and mandatory failure to report suspected abuse at the nursing home.

Charges in the case came in December after an investigation into the allegations of abuse by local and Minnesota Department of Health officials; however, details of the allegations surfaced August 2008 after the release of the Department of Health’s report.

The report concluded four teenagers were involved in verbal, sexual and emotional abuse of 15 residents at the nursing home in Albert Lea from January through May 2008. The residents suffered from mental degradation conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.