ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A former bus aide with Littleton Public Schools, who was convicted of abusing children with autism, was sentenced Wednesday in Arapahoe County Court.
Kiarra Jones, 30, received four and a half years in prison for abusing non-verbal children on an LPS bus to the Joshua School, a facility for children with autism.
During the sentencing hearing, victims’ families urged the judge to impose the maximum sentence allowed by law. Meanwhile, her defense team claimed Jones had a difficult life and struggled with substance abuse, asking the judge for probation. To close their argument, Jones’s attorneys read a statement from her expressing remorse for her actions…