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Former bus aide facing new abuse charges Arraignment is set for July 1 as parents react to next steps BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A former Littleton Public Schools paraprofessional, who was hired to assist non-verbal autistic students on their school bus, is facing 10 additional child assault and abuse charges. The charges are added to an initial charge filed by police in April. Kiarra Jones, 29, faces nine counts of crimes against at-risk children or adult, third degree assault, and two counts of child abuse/reckless bodily injury. She is accused of harming students on the bus to and from Joshua School, a private facility in Englewood for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and developThe Littleton Public Schools administration building is located on Crocker Street in Littleton. LPS employed school-bus parapromental disabilities. An arraignment is set for Jones on fessional Kiarra Jones for about seven months. Jones is now facing multiple charges for allegedly abusing the non-verbal autistic PHOTO BY SCOTT GILBERT July 1, Eric Ross, public information children she was supposed to be assisting. officer for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, said. Jones re- represented by Denver-based firm, “Each felony charge represents a student Jones is allegedly striking in mains out of custody on bond, Ross Rathod | Mohamedbhai firm, said separate day in which multiple in- a video made public and shown by added. 10-year-old Dax Vestal and 10-year- stances of abuse occurred,” Moham- news outlets throughout the world Qusair Mohamedbhai, a lawyer old Andrew McBride were victims edbhai said. SEE CHARGES, P12 representing two of three families identified in the case. Vestal has been identified as the
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