LaToya Willis, Holland’s mother, said she does not believe he assaulted Hill. I was also unable to access Holland’s arrest records at the courthouse because of his juvenile status. Hill declined to comment due to the sensitivity of the case and the approaching trial. Not only would his case stay private, but at 21 the crime would also be stricken from his record, protecting him from the job discrimination that many felons face. But his family remains hopeful that he might be tried as a youthful offender so that even if convicted, Holland would have a second chance: He would not be legally considered a criminal, and the maximum sentence he could accrue would only be four years. Now, he faces up to 61 years in prison, as well as the possibility of being tried in court as an adult. A young black man, Holland’s mother described him as a “gentle giant,” and friends and family mentioned his diverse interests in computer game design, music and football. He had never been suspended from school or arrested by the police before. Having just turned 17, Aymir Holland is the youngest of the accused group. The identical felony charges reflect no distinction of the relative levels of culpability among the three defendants, or any special treatment for Holland’s juvenile status. Each of the three suspects are being charged with five felonies: first degree assault, assault of an elderly victim, first degree robbery, first degree conspiracy to commit assault and first degree conspiracy to commit robbery. The last two of their group remain at large. Aymir Holland and Kelton Gilbert, who were 16 and 18 at the time of the assault, are detained at Manson Youth Institution for offenders up to age 21 Lawrence Minor, who was 20 during the incident, is detained at an adult institution. Nationally, the shortages of beds and mental health workers have collided with an increasing pandemic-driven demand for mental health treatment.Hill has since recovered, and over a year later, three of his five alleged assailants sit in prison. Roland Behm, a board member of the Georgia chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, said, "Such patients are sometimes strapped down or held in isolation and often receive little or no mental health services." Unprecedented mental health crisis The departures have limited the capacity of state-run psychiatric units for patients, who often are poor or uninsured, forcing some people with serious mental illness to languish in hospital ERs or jails until beds open up in the state systems, according to local leaders of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Many state workers, such as nurses, are leaving the psychiatric units for much higher pay - with temp agencies or other employers - and less stressful conditions. The bed capacity problem, which has existed for years, has worsened during the pandemic, creating backlogs of poor or uninsured patients, as well as people in jails who are awaiting placement in state facilities.įull coverage of the coronavirus pandemic The shortage of beds in Georgia's state psychiatric facilities reflects a national trend linked to staffing deficits that are cramping services in the public mental health system.
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