The sentencing date for a caretaker who pleaded guilty to leaving a special needs man in a scalding shower in Webster City in 2022 has been pushed back to June 5 in Hamilton County.

Nicholas Brendan Seamonds died on December 20, 2022, as the result of injuries he sustained from “neglect of care” that occurred December 10, 2022, when he was living in specialized housing for someone with his needs.

Pamara May Garcia, of Webster City, pleaded guilty to a charge of wanton neglect of a dependent adult by a caretaker, which is a serious misdemeanor.

She was arrested September 19, 2023, on an original charge of neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, which is a class C felony.

Seamonds sustained third-degree burns, among other unspecified injuries, when he was left unattended in the shower by Garcia, according to the criminal complaint. The injuries occurred at the group home where Seamonds lived at 511 Elm Street, Webster City. “This residence supports people, such as Seamonds, with intellectual and developmental disabilities,” the criminal complaint states.

Seamonds was wheelchair bound.

He was 43 when he died.

Garcia was 52 at the time of her arrest.

Garcia, in a written plea agreement filed with the court system on April 3, 2024, stated, “I knowingly acted in a manner likely to be injurious to the physical welfare of Nicholas Seamonds by placing him in a shower for an extended period of time, unsupervised, and with the knowledge that he could not exit or alert me of any emergency.”