The father of a four-year-old special needs student who was allegedly molested by a school bus aide is irate. The aide has been arrested, but Josue Melgar said the district shouldn’t have taken nearly two weeks to tell him about the incident. He told CBS4:
“They give me excuses saying, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’ saying, ‘We told this person to call you.’ It’s not the way to handle things.”
“… I don’t know for how these people (the school district) could do this without sending the girl back home and acting like nothing has happened … That’s not the way to do this. I just feel devastated when I think about that. I can’t sleep just thinking about that.”
The district said it launched an investigation immediately after the bus driver said she saw the aide touching the student and removed the aide and reassigned him to a job away from students. But the district could not say why the Melgars were not notified immediately.
Read the whole story online. Let us know what you think. How do you think the district handled this incident? What procedures for investigation and notification of parents are in place in your school if this should happen?
