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A mother in Sumter, S.C. has filed suit against the school district claiming that due to negligence her autistic son was abused by a school bus aide. The description of what was done to her autistic son sounds like something that might have happened between two students in a fight. But it wasn’t a fight and her son is a victim. The mom says “He was grabbed around the neck and pushed into the window, pushed down to a seat, punched in his stomach.” The mother called the police as soon as she found out. Deputies in Sumter County arrested and charged 19 year old James Porter with assault and battery on a minor. Porter was a bus aide on the school bus that the autistic boy rode. His mother said he would come home off the school bus and be in a bad mood or be crying. The concerned…
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