Public Safety
Police: Aide Bit, Assaulted Autistic Child While School Bus Passed Through Darien
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An aide on a school bus taking a 9-year-old boy from Stamford to Trumbull was in Darien when he was caught on surveillance video biting the child, Darien police said. The man, a 27-year-old Bridgeport man, is also accused of hitting the boy, who has autism, with a phone and even licking his face and wiping mucus on him over the previous three weeks, police said. Police did not say whether any of those alleged acts were also recorded on video. Darien police gave these further details of the incident, including accusations not proven in court:
Trumbull police told police in Darien on April 4 that when the biting incident took place three days earlier, the bus was in Darien, taking the boy and other students home from a private special education school in Stamford. The boy’s mother reported the incident to police after she saw a bite mark on the child’s back.