3-year-old strangled by seatbelt on schoolbus
October 30, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
A three-year-old autistic boy died after being strangled by his seatbelt on a schoolbus this past Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports. An aide has been arrested:
During a police investigation into the incident, the boy’s mother said that she realized he was unconscious when she boarded the school bus to help him off after it arrived at her house.
Police later began to suspect that the incident was a result of the boy being improperly secured into his seat, a suspicion that led to the arrest of his aide
Many, many thoughts with the boy’s family. Many.
Heart breaking.
My thoughts also to the family.
I am so sorry for their loss. This is a horrible tragedy.
I don’t even know what to say. I am filled with an incredible sadness, and my heart goes out to this family.
That is so sad. I can’t imagine.
Even though I don’t know the 3-year-old autistic boy who died, my prayers go out to his family. (God is with his family.) How could an irresponsible person like his aide not buckle him up properly? That just makes me sick!
God bless all of you.
I read that when the mother came to pick her son up, before she saw he was unconcious, she asked the aide how he was and the aide said he was whiney. This means she ignored him while he was struggling with the seatbelt because she just saw him as a whiney little disabled child. I bet that if the aide had noticed the boy was dead she’d lie to the mother and say she didn’t hear a peep from him.