ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - An Orangeburg woman has pleaded guilty to elder abuse and sentenced to prison for locking up residents in an unlicensed care home.

Attorney General Alan Wilson announced that Estelle Amelia Hutchinson, 53, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Orangeburg County to one count of neglect of a vulnerable adult, one count of criminal conspiracy, and one count of operating a community residential care home without a license.

Susan Rhodes avoids jail time for Aiken County charges after her disappearance

A North Augusta woman who was reported missing for months and later arrested is now avoiding jail time for some charges.

Judge Charles McCutchen sentenced her to five years in prison, suspended to three years’ active time in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, fo

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