A Colorado school bus aide faces criminal charges after a security video caught her hitting a nonverbal student as he was strapped into a harness inside the bus. Kiarra Jones, a 29-year-old paraprofessional for the Littleton Schools, was arrested and charged with assault on April 4 after a March 18 video showed her elbowing and beating a 10-year-old nonverbal student, NBC affiliate KUSA reported.
Video shows school aide assaulting student on the bus. The video was obtained by authorities after a parent raised concerns about bruising on their child. Investigators have since reviewed other instances of abuse of “more than one” student, captured by security footage on February 13 and March 1. “If I could say one thing to Littleton Public Schools, it would be how dare you, how dare you failed my son in such an astonishingly preventable way,” one of the parents said in a press conference.