Bus monitor accused of repeatedly assaulting boy with autism

METHUEN, Mass. (WCVB) – A Massachusetts bus monitor is accused of repeatedly beating a nonverbal little one with autism.

Nancy Vasquez was arrested, arraigned and charged this week with assault and battery on a disabled individual.

The 56-year-old was later launched and positioned below home arrest.

The bus driver, 38-year-old Marlene Cruz, was additionally charged within the case. She is accused of allowing the alleged abuse to happen.

Investigators stated the bus was outfitted with a digital camera, which caught the alleged abuse.

Till final week, Vasquez labored as a monitor for the non-public firm NRT Bus on a van.

Prosecutors stated she repeatedly abused the 10-year-old nonverbal boy with autism.

“She hits him with a sandal. She hits him along with her cellphone a number of occasions. She pinches him. She twists his arm. She constantly smacks him within the face,” the prosecutor described in courtroom.

The boy’s household grew to become suspicious after he began showing afraid to get within the van, so that they requested the corporate to test the automobile’s surveillance video.

Investigators stated it confirmed Vasquez beating the boy day-after-day throughout your complete one-hour trip.

In response to prosecutors, the boy clapped his arms collectively to attempt to talk for her to cease.

“She hits him over the truth that he touches his face or he touches his boogers, that he appears to be like at her, that he needs to carry her hand,” the prosecutor added.

Vasquez’s lawyer Darya Ferrari identified she has no legal report and no complaints throughout her 4 years working for NRT Bus.

Actually, Ferrari stated one other household known as Vasquez a “godsend.”

“Nancy is a loving and caring mom who lacked acceptable coaching and was method over her head,” Ferrari stated.

Vasquez has since been fired and the boy’s father, Anthony Amero Sr., stated he continues to go to highschool now with a trainer driving alongside.

“He’s nonetheless a bit skittish within the morning to get on the bus,” Amero Sr. stated.

Vasquez should put on a GPS system and can’t have contact with the sufferer, different kids or folks with particular wants.

She is due again in courtroom on Nov. 3.