IRA, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — New York State Police say a Cato-Meridian Central School District bus driver won’t be criminally charged for allegedly shutting school bus doors on the still-attached backpack of a four-year-old student, dragging the girl about 15 feet down the road.
Donna Cooper, the girl’s grandmother and legal guardian, said she was waiting outside the family’s home on Follett Road when her granddaughter, Riley, was about to get home from school.
As the 4-year-old stepped out, Cooper said the bus doors closed with Riley outside but her backpack still caught inside…