Schools
Bus Aide Fired After Video Showed Her Slapping Autistic Girl
Charges are possible against a woman shown on video slapping a 6-year-old girl on a school bus.
NEW LENOX, IL -- The bus aide shown on video hitting an autistic child on a bus in New Lenox last month has been fired, but yet to be named or charged. New Lenox police have concluded their part of the investigation of the aide's interaction with a 6-year-old girl and have sent the case to the Will County States Attorney's Office, according to a Daily Southtown report.
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The report indicates the aide was fired by Lincoln-Way Area Special Education 843, which works with New Lenox School District 122 on providing bus aides. The bus was headed to Cherry Hill School on April 25 when the alleged incident occurred.
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School officials have indicated that they first asked for a video from the bus when staff at Cherry Hill saw the aide carrying the child off the bus.
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"My blood boils," Nicholas Rushing, the girl's father, told ABC-7 in the days following the incident. "I think about it and it just makes me mad. She shouldn't have to go through that."
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