
#Bus driver slaps child driver#
I can’t believe it’s gone this far.”Ĭourt documents say in her police interview, the bus driver told investigators that she has never been trained to handle kids with special needs.ĭownload the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts.įollow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. A school bus driver has admitted to slapping a 10-year-old girl for not wearing her face mask properly. A Fremont County, Colorado school bus driver admitted to police that he slapped a 10-year-old girl after he disputed the way the student was wearing her face mask. Bonnie said: This does not mean literally hitting children with rods. But this bus driver had no business slapping that child. Parents who love their children discipline them. “I really thought this was going to be a case that magistrate would throw out and maybe reduce it. A Colorado bus driver, Bertram Jaquez, has been fired and charged with child abuse after video footage showed him slapping a young girl in the face. This paraphrased verse from Proverbs 13:24 just means that axlack of discipline leads to spoiled brats for children. “It’s emotionally hard for her,” he said. Garland’s fiance said he thinks the entire case needs to be dropped. “It does make you pause when you come to court and the other side has a civil attorney,” Jones explained. “Civil attorneys aren’t here to just hang out, they’re usually here because they’re looking for something.” Former King County Judge Jeanette Burrage was found not guilty of assault for slapping a 6-year-old special-needs child while she was working as a school-bus driver. He also told us the victim’s family had a civil attorney with them for today’s hearing, which was postponed. But the video says it all in my opinion, so I’m looking forward to see the video,” Jones said. “A lot of the times, people will say different things. Garland’s defense attorney, Blaine Jones, told us he has yet to see the video, but thinks it could help his client.
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Then the boy continues to scream and cry. The bus’s surveillance system captured it on video and detectives say you can hear the child scream “ow,” and Garland respond “you’re darn right, ow.” Bertram Jaquez was caught on video slapping the young child so hard that her head whipped back and hit the seat. “I think it’s a bunch of crap.”īack in September, Jefferson Hills police got a ChildLine tip about Garland slapping a young child with special needs as she was trying to tighten his harness straps. Colorado A Freemont School District bus driver has been arrested on charges of child abuse causing injury, harassment, and third degree assault for slapping a 10-year-old girl across the face over a mask dispute. She says her daughter is beaten up and bruised - afraid to go to school.“I’ve known her 40 years there’s no way she’s going to slap anybody,” Garland’s fiance said. Colorado Bus Diver Slaps Child Whose COVID-1984 Mask Was Askew. "Something is psychologically wrong with her to be able to do that." The incident is also under police investigation by the DPSCD Police Department." The driver was removed from DPSCD service and may face termination through the bus contractor, Trinity. "A fight occurred (Tuesday) on a contracted Trinity bus involving a student and the driver. Regardless, the bus driver has been suspended, according to this statement from DPSCD: The incident reportedly took place back in April in Fremont County, Colorado. They are wrong for even saying something like that."

Out of reaction, I slapped her once, Bertram Jaquez admitted in a written statement to the Fremont County School District in Colorado.

"How does a grown woman bite a child? Not just the beating part, you bit her in her face."īut, the bus driver says the child refused to sit down and said the child went to the front of the bus and actually swung first. A school bus driver has lost his job after slapping a 10-year-old student who pulled her mask under her nose because it was making her sick. "It was such a vicious attack," Diallo said. "I thought it was a fake video, when the family contacted me last night," said attorney Lillian Diallo.ĭiallo has been hired by the family to represent them and says that the driver also bit the girl in the face during the altercation. Coakley said the girl called the driver out for swearing and that's when she says the driver started hitting her child. It happened this week near the Carver STEM Academy, a Detroit Public School on the city's west side.Īccording to the girl's family, the 12-year-old girl was waving at her brother out of the window of the bus and the driver tapped her on the shoulder and told her 'sit her a- down'. "She is just quiet and she just looks sad." "I don't think she knows how she is," Coakley said. Dallas A mother from Dallas is calling for her daughters school bus driver to be fired after obtaining video of her child being violently bullied on the bus.
