MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A child occupational therapist is accused of abusing a 5-year-old boy during a therapy session at a clinic in the Three Lakes neighborhood of southwest Miami-Dade, investigators said.
Jail records show Leonardo Daniel Rivas, 42, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm.
Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said the boy was attending his daily occupational therapy session at Florida Kids Therapy Medley at 13335 SW 124th St. on Thursday when Rivas, who was serving as his occupational therapist, “squeezed the victim’s cheeks together” and repeatedly forced a speech therapy device known as a Whisper Phone into the victim’s mouth, “covering his mouth several times.”…