A video caught a Littleton school bus aide striking a nonverbal student in 2024 — and now she’s headed to prison for more than four years after pleading guilty to 10 child abuse charges.
Arapahoe County District Judge Laqunya Latrese Baker-McKay sentenced 29-year-old Kiarra Jones to four-and-a-half years in prison on Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts for abusing at-risk children and two misdemeanor counts of child abuse in January, according to a social media post by the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
“I often painstakingly ponder what could cause a person to behave this way, to do something so hideous to someone so beautiful and innocent,” said the father of one of the victims at the sentencing hearing, according to The Denver Gazette’s news partner, 9NEWS…