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The home where Krystal Alexandria Pinkowski had lived is located off Highway 814 between Socastee and Coastal Carolina University. An elderly woman was found naked and dead on the front porch after law enforcement was called to the home. Pinkowski has been charged with abuse or neglect with great bodily injury of a vulnerable adult, three counts of unlawful conduct toward a child and 14 counts of ill treatment of animals. Police reported children were living in the home, there was no access to the bathroom and the refrigerator was blocked by animal cages. Pinkowski remains in custody.
Kathy Pinkowski dedicated her life to caring for others.
Friends described her as a supportive wife, mother, daughter-in-law and social services worker, someone who spent decades looking after people both inside and outside her family. They also remain stunned and angry that the 71-year-old lived in filth just before she died. Her daughter Krystal Pinkowski came home on a March evening to discover Kathy Pinkowski covered in excrement and unresponsive, according to public records.
“The thing that makes all of us so sick is that Kathy worked for 30 something years busting her
for that kid,” said Kim Lawkins, a former coworker with Kathleen Pinkowski at Schenectady County DSS in New York. “Everything was all about Krystal. And for her to go out like this. It's absolutely disgusting. To be basically tossed away like trash.”Krystal Pinkowski is charged with one count of abuse or neglect with great bodily injury toward a vulnerable adult. She's also charged with three counts of unlawfully placing a child at risk of or cause harm or willfully abandoning a child and one count of ill treatment or torture of animals, according to Horry County court records. Police said the charges stemmed from Krystal Pinkowski's treatment of her mother and children.
public records, including audio of 911 calls, reveal what police found when they responded to the Pinkowski home on March 16.
“I came home and she had urinated and had diarrhea and stuff all over herself,” Krystal Pinkowski told a 911 dispatcher. “I tried to put her in the wheelchair to get her in the shower and she is just completely out of it… She’s like gasping for air.”
Soon after, Krystal Pinkowski told the 911 dispatcher that her mother was slouched over in a wheelchair and unable to breathe. The daughter was told by the 911 dispatcher to move her mother into a laid back, flat position and perform chest compressions to help her mother’s breathing.
911 call shows timeline when grandmother died on Myrtle Beach area porch
Krystal Pinkowski came home on a March evening in the Myrtle Beach area to find her 71-year-old mother Kathleen PInkowski covered in her own excrement and unresponsive, according to 911 call logs.
