Third Fairfax Co. schools employee accused of assaulting another student with autism
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A third Fairfax County Public Schools employee is now facing charges after he was found to have assaulted a child with autism during two different instances on the way to school.
This comes less than a week after two other Fairfax County Public Schools employees were accused of assaulting a different student with autism on a school bus.
Detectives say a supervisor reviewed surveillance footage from the bus and noted two encounters between the boy and bus aide, one on October 10 and the other on October 19, both around 7:50 a.m.
Lee now faces charges of assault and battery after turning himself in Tuesday afternoon, according to police.
Earlier this week, two other Fairfax County Public Schools employees, 62-year-old James Duffy, III, who works as a school bus driver, and 35-year-old Edmund Bailey, a bus aid, were accused of assaulting an 11-year-old boy with autism and face charges of assault and battery.
Police say, however, the two incidents are not related.
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