Reading up on the Resi: Dead Island stuff. So they just decided to retcon Jill Valentines to be: A Litle Creacher?
I guess it makes the Resi 5 stuff a little easier to swallow like lol but chalk this up to incident #43578525 of them heading towards the "Sons Of Spencer" concept and just not commiting to the bit (See also: Sherry Birkin, Jake, Rose)