A school bus monitor faces charges after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died following an incident on a bus ride in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
A school bus monitor is facing charges after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died following an incident on a bus ride in New Jersey, prosecutors said.
During the ride, "a series of bumps in the road caused the 6-year-old to slump in her wheelchair seat making the 4-point harness which secured her to the chair to become tight around her neck, ultimately blocking her airway," the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said in aThe school bus monitor who secured the child to the chair was seated toward the front of the bus at the time and "was utilizing a cellular telephone while wearing earbud headphone devices in both...
She was being held in Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing, which is scheduled to occur possibly on Tuesday, the prosecutor's office said. It is unclear if she has an attorney who can speak on her behalf. Attempts by ABC News to reach Davila for comment were unsuccessful. "She did not deserve this, to be taken away from us in such a way that had nothing to do with her condition," her mother, Najmah Nash, told the station."My daughter, she can't speak, she's helpless," her father, Wali Williams, told the station. "She can't even take the harness off on her own, she can't even take the seat belt off. The only thing she can do is move her arms.
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