Safety Concerns

by Kristina Chew · 2009-05-12 14:22:00 UTC
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In Utah, a 5-year-old boy on the autism spectrum was left on a school bus and, after waking up in the bus driver's driveway, got out and wandered for several blocks until a "concerned citizen" saw him and notified police. The bus drive has been suspended.

A 63-year-old former social worker who counseled children on the spectrum has been sentenced to five months in jail and a two-year suspended sentence Friday after pleading guilty to sex crimes involving a 15-year old male client, as reported in yesterday's Kirkland Reporter.

There's only a few children on Charlie's school bus and the aide is often sitting right behind him, so I seriously doubt that he'd ever be left on the bus. And, now that he's older and knows, he's supposed to get driven home and get off the bus I think Charlie would, in whatever way, communicate that.

But as for the second situation involving the former social worker----that's something that we're just beginning to address and it's not, not easy, but we have to.

Kristina Chew
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