A Nevada elementary college instructor has admitted to drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of youngsters — together with a 2-year-old neighbor, in response to 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 “all through her childhood and maturity,” in response to 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 college instructor admitting to “drugging her and touching her inappropriately,” in response to courtroom paperwork.
“The defendant admitted to giving her [the alleged victim] Benadryl to sedate her by sneaking it in her meals,” then touching the lady whereas she slept, police wrote of their report.
When interviewed by police on June 25, Hillson allegedly admitted abusing the girl all through her childhood, persevering with when she returned residence from faculty in 2014 — blaming it on how “she by no means felt seen and desired to be shut to a different individual,” the courtroom docs mentioned.
Hillson admitted to inappropriately touching at the very least a dozen different youngsters — together with a 2-year-old neighbor at a neighborhood pool inside the previous couple of 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 on this case are deeply disturbing,” Washoe County District Legal professional Chris Hicks mentioned in an announcement, saying that alleged victims embody “a toddler.”
“I commend the extraordinary braveness of the grownup sufferer who got here ahead to report this abuse; a courageous act that has allowed us to hunt justice and defend others from hurt.”
Hilson was employed at Roy Gomm Elementary College from 2022 by means of June 2025, in response to the Reno Gazette. Police mentioned there isn’t any proof that Hillson harmed any college students whereas employed on the college, per the outlet.
She was charged with one rely of sexual assault of a kid underneath 14, one rely of sexual assault and three counts of lewdness with a baby underneath 14, in response to Washoe County Sheriff’s Workplace (WCSO) information present.
Her bail was set at $5 million.
