A Florida school bus aide was caught on camera pummeling a “nonverbal autistic” 9-year-old while he was “harnessed” to a seat, leading to a felony charge of child abuse, cops say.
Surveillance footage captured inside of a Hillsborough County Public Schools bus shows James Savage, 79, allegedly attacking the boy “intentionally and willfully” on Friday afternoon, according to an arrest affidavit.
Police arrested Savage less than three hours later after the child’s mother came forward and reported “concerns” that her “nonverbal autistic son may have been struck on the school bus by his aide,” according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office press release. The boy attends an elementary school in Ruskin…