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NJ bus monitor was on cellphone as 6-year-old special needs student was strangled by own seatbelt

NJ bus monitor was on cellphone as 6-year-old special needs student was strangled by own seatbelt

A New Jersey school bus monitor has been charged with manslaughter in the heartbreaking death of a 6-year-old special-needs girl strangled by her wheelchair harness — while the monitor was allegedly on her cellphone.

The little girl, Faja Williams, was buckled in at the back of the bus by Amanda Davila, 27, for the Monday ride to an extended school year program in Franklin Township, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said.

During the trip, Davila was seated near the front of the vehicle “and was utilizing a cellular telephone while wearing ear bud headphone devices in both ears,” officials said.

The monitor “was in violation of policies and procedures,” they added.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/nj-school-bus-monitor-charged-in-death-of-girl-strangled-in-wheelchair/

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