Bus driver charged with slapping 6-year-old

Published 11:16am Friday, October 5, 2012
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BLUE EARTH, Minn. (AP) — A Blue Earth school bus driver has been charged with slapping a 6-year-old passenger who she says was unruly.

Seventy-two-year-old Jane Brooks is charged with fifth-degree assault.

Brooks says the 6-year-old was hitting a smaller child on the head with his book bag during an afternoon route Sept. 14.

She says the boy refused to move to another seat so she had to physically move him. The child then began kicking passengers across the aisle. Brooks says she radioed for help and school staff told her to move other children away from the boy.

The Fairmont Sentinel reports as Brooks was doing so, the boy spit on the children in the seat behind him.

A criminal complaint says Brooks told the boy to stop spitting and when he did so again, she slapped him across the face.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/daviddena.wiseman David Dena Wiseman

    hard to say on this one older people r old school while i do not agree with someone slapping someone’s child if what she said is true then someone should slap the parents of this child no matter what a child does they have learned to be this way and have either not been properly taught about what is expected of them or have been catered to so they act as if they can do what they want I would not be surprised if there was some abuse going on at home or at least something that may have contributed to this type of behavior it is not the childs fault he is
    but is is unfortunate that the behavior effects other children

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  • ktlsppr

    seems like the kid desirved it too me. i would have taken my belt off.

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  • Gbugsflowers

    I couldn’t agree more with David Dena Wiseman on this one. There are a lot of children today that doesn’t have the discipline that some of us older ones had. So, of course we are going to see it as very disrespectful for this child to behave like this. Much of today’s society lacks morals and discipline, and then it reflects in ways such as this. So unfortunate.

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