Just last month, the same bus company came under fire after a child with special needs was forgotten during the school drop-off and spent the day alone in a bus - which reached a temperature of above 30C. We have had no further contact from the police on this matter.” “The matter was referred to the police for investigation.
The review outcomes involved a retraining of staff and a reallocation of responsibilities. “Immediate measures were taken to ensure an incident of this nature was not repeated.
“A full review of the incident and how it happened was instigated,” a spokesman for Crown Coaches told. It is understood the supervisor on board the bus was reprimanded and put on a different bus run. Speaking to the bus company, Crown Coaches told Mr and Mrs Aughterson the boy who abused their son had been taken off the bus and would not be on the same bus as Jalen in the future. The alleged incident happened on board a Crown Coach.
When I ask if he wants to go past the boy’s home, he asks to go another way.” “But since the incident, Jalen won’t walk past the other kid’s house, who lives down the street from us.
“But dropping his head and not wanting to talk is Jalen’s default mechanism, even when we ask about something good he will drop his head. “When we ask him what happened, Jalen drops his head and doesn’t want to talk. “I don’t think he understands what happened,” Mr Aughterson said. Mr Aughterson is unsure if his son understands what happened on the bus, and if he has been impacted by the abuse. “We had to make a decision on what to do, and because we didn’t want to put Jalen in front of a court, and with the other boy being disabled as well, we didn’t press charges,” Mr Aughterson said. Police advised that unless the Aughtersons were going to press charges against the boy who abused Jalen, there nothing they could do. Once one tear came out, they all came out.”įrom there, the school contacted the police. “After going to the school and showing them the footage on Jalen’s phone, I just broke down watching it again. “The driver, who had been driving Jalen for five years, went white like he’d seen a ghost.
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