A former school bus aide in Colorado has pleaded guilty to assaulting multiple nonverbal children with autism, authorities announced this week.
Kiarra Jones, who previously worked for Littleton Public Schools, pleaded guilty on Monday to 10 felony counts of third-degree assault of an at-risk child and two misdemeanor counts of child abuse, according to the Office of the District Attorney for the 18th Judicial District in Arapahoe County.
Prosecutors said the case began after a parent of a nonverbal boy with autism noticed unexplained bruises on her son’s foot and requested to review surveillance footage from the school bus. After examining video from the bus’s security camera, school officials found evidence that the child had been physically assaulted by Jones…