(ABILENE, TX) – Two former Child Protective Services workers connected to the Tiffany Klapheke neglect case are scheduled to appear in court on the same day.

Gretchen Denny, 42, and Martha ‘Bit’ Whitaker, 59, are both charged with Tampering With/Fabricating Physical Evidence charge due to allegations that surfaced during the investigation into Klapheke.

Court documents filed for both Denny and Whitaker say the women “did intentionally and knowingly alter or conceal . . . Child Protective Services documents detailing the investigation of the Klapheke children and/or medical records of the Klapheke children and/or Dyess Family Advocacy office records of the Klapheke children, with intent  to impair its availability as evidence in the investigation”.

Whitaker, who was the regional director for Child Protective Services during the Klapheke case, is scheduled for a jury trial in Taylor County on March 14, 2016. Denny, who was a case worker, is scheduled for a plea hearing the same day.

Klapheke, 25, was convicted and sentenced to serve thirty years in prison in 2014 for neglecting her three daughters, one of whom, Tamaryn Klapheke, 22 months, passed away as a result of the neglect.