A Denver Public Schools bus driver is on administrative leave after video showed that the driver used “an unapproved seat belt-like device” to keep an autistic student in his safety seat.
Kathy Griffin told 7News that she and Lekesha Rouse are guardians for their two children, a 3-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl, who attend Garden Place Academy Preschool.
The boy is autistic and the girl has learning disabilities, and both have special harnesses that buckle to their safety seats. The boy had learned to unbuckle the harness, and, according to Griffin, the driver “was tying him down with ropes and putting belts on the thing because he comes out of the harness.”
She said DPS called them Tuesday after its review of bus surveillance video.
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