Another Little City Employee Accused Of Hitting 11-Year-Old Boy In Separate Incident

PALATINE, IL — Another Little City employee is accused of previously abusing an 11-year-old boy who was attacked and beaten in December by two workers at the Palatine facility that helps individuals with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities, the Daily Herald reports.

Kalia Coffey, 23, of Schaumburg, was charged with aggravated battery of a child last year, and she was released on $2,000 bail July 12, the report stated. The Cook County Sheriff's Office alleges Coffey punched the boy — a Little City resident with special needs — in the face June 17, the report added.

Earlier this month, Lisa Archer, 39, of Palatine, and Ronkeia Harper, 22, of Forest Park, were charged with aggravated battery after the women were accused of punching the boy, as well as hitting him with a bucket, in an incident Dec. 1. The women were placed immediately on administrative leave after the incident, and they were fired five days after that.

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The Department of Children and Family Services opened an investigation into the incident Dec. 2, and it turned over its findings to the sheriff's office, which conducted its own probe Jan. 23.

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