A 35-year-old Lawrence man pleaded guilty today to abusing a mentally disabled client at an assisted-living home. Eric S. Wyatt, 35, a former employee of Community Living Opportunities, was scheduled to stand trial next week for abuse of a client at Ponderosa House, 1205 E. 26th St. But he pleaded guilty today in Douglas County District Court to three counts of mistreatment of a dependant adult and will be sentenced Oct. 6.According to Atty. Gen. Phill Kline’s office, which prosecuted the case, Wyatt forced credit card into the patient’s mouth and then turned it vertically, placed his fingers in the patient’s mouth and his thumb under the patient’s chin to hold the patient in a standing position, and beat the patient’s head and face with the heel of a shoe.Kline’s office did not win a conviction earlier this year in a trial involving abuse allegations against another former Ponderosa House worker, Dustin D. Taylor. But some of the counts ended with a hung jury, and Kline has given notice his office plans to try the case again.-contributed by Eric Weslander.