Lawsuit - Autistic died in hot bus driver was having sex

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21 Apr 2017, 1:52 am

LAWSUIT: CALIFORNIA DRIVER WHO LEFT TEEN WITH AUTISM TO DIE ON HOT BUS WAS HAVING SEX WITH CO-WORKER


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21 Apr 2017, 3:07 pm

I can wrap my head around all kinds of indie scenes, but a version of traditionalism, in which everyone met their end of the social bargain, would have been just fine.

Like, how would marriage, sex, and employment be dealt-with, particularly, if you're a custodian.

This is the failure, of many different, social institutions, all under one headline.



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22 Apr 2017, 3:13 pm

Not only was that driver selfish, but obviously saw that child as less than human, to be left to die in the bus like that. Is that the way the world sees us?!?!


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22 Apr 2017, 6:45 pm

And this is why I am a little more protective of my non verbal son than I was to my older kids. I trust no one with my children except those very close to me for many years. What a selfish pig, even if the boy had survived. To just be alone like that.


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22 Apr 2017, 8:02 pm

Autistic or not, it is unacceptable for bus drivers to let their passenger die.


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22 Apr 2017, 9:18 pm

The response of the woman involved is quite staggering
The mistress told police she felt bad after learning of Lee's death because they were laughing and having sex while the child was on the bus.

She apparently felt "bad" - I think this speaks volumes of the lack of empathy of this pair had...



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23 Apr 2017, 7:49 am

The school district believes that the unnatural problem, here, is when two of it's reproductively-mature employees couple-off.

Whether they are thorough or should be trusted with children is not the issue. The issue is their policy on dating.



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23 Apr 2017, 8:40 am

Hope that they throw the book at him (with great force)! In both civil, and in criminal court.



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13 Jun 2017, 9:21 pm

Family whose autistic teen died in sweltering bus reaches $23.5-million settlement

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The family of an autistic teenager who died in 2015 after being left alone for hours on a sweltering bus has reached a $23.5-million settlement with the bus agency, attorneys said.

Hun Joon “Paul” Lee, 19, was found on the floor of a bus parked in a Whittier bus yard on Sept. 11, 2015 — a 96-degree day — and the non-verbal teenager was pronounced dead after life-saving efforts failed. The bus driver, Armando Abel Ramirez of Rialto, did not check the rear of the bus to ensure Lee had left.

In December 2015, Lee’s parents filed a lawsuit against the bus agency, Pupil Transportation Cooperative, and the Whittier Union High School District. The district was dropped as a defendant when it became clear “the evidence was overwhelmingly against the bus company,” Brian Panish, the family’s lawyer, said.

Ramirez was sentenced to two years in prison in January for felony dependent adult abuse resulting in death.

The incident involving Lee was not the first time the company’s drivers had left children on their buses.

In a deposition conducted by the family’s lawyers, Debbie LaJoie — director of transportation for the company at the time of Lee’s death — said that to her knowledge, four special-education students besides Lee had been left on a bus between 2006 and 2015. None of the drivers had been terminated after those incidents, LaJoie said.

In 2016, Lee’s parents lobbied the state to pass regulations aimed at improving child safety on buses. Last fall, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law requirements that all buses in California be equipped with child safety alarms to be deactivated by a driver before leaving the bus.

The law, which will go into effect in the 2018-2019 school year, will also mandate that drivers receive annual training for child safety to renew their bus driver safety certificate.


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13 Jun 2017, 9:37 pm

As an aspie and a school bus monitor for special needs kids I am absolutely disgusted by this artical. The kid was f*****g dying out there in the goddamn heat and yet the bus driver just neglected the poor kid entirely. The guy practically committed manslaughter on a living human being and only got two years. THAT'S f*****g IT?! If my driver did this to one of my kids on out bus if I had to substitute for another or went to run some errands, I'd knock his/her ass the f**k out.



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14 Jun 2017, 12:54 am

Another case with similarities

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The family of a student with autism will receive $900,000 from the Clark County School District to settle claims the student was improperly restrained by a teacher's aide during the 2011-12 school year.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/2s7509O ) Monday that one federal and one state lawsuit were settled in the case of former Variety School teacher's aide Lachelle James, who John and Dina Phipps accuse of abusing their then-11-year-old nonverbal son.

A three-member arbitration panel agreed the child was subject to multiple batteries and inappropriate physical restraint by the teacher's aide.

James pleaded guilty in June 2014 to two counts of gross misdemeanor child abuse, neglect or endangerment and was sentenced to probation.


If I did that to an adult I would likely be sentenced to a lot more than probation.


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14 Jun 2017, 1:24 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
Another case with similarities

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The family of a student with autism will receive $900,000 from the Clark County School District to settle claims the student was improperly restrained by a teacher's aide during the 2011-12 school year.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported (http://bit.ly/2s7509O ) Monday that one federal and one state lawsuit were settled in the case of former Variety School teacher's aide Lachelle James, who John and Dina Phipps accuse of abusing their then-11-year-old nonverbal son.

A three-member arbitration panel agreed the child was subject to multiple batteries and inappropriate physical restraint by the teacher's aide.

James pleaded guilty in June 2014 to two counts of gross misdemeanor child abuse, neglect or endangerment and was sentenced to probation.


If I did that to an adult I would likely be sentenced to a lot more than probation.


One of the big problems for non-verbal kids is the high level of vulnerability they face to abuse due to their inability to properly convey what is being done to them. There is also a lack of advocates for non-verbal people to represent them in such cases



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14 Jun 2017, 1:52 am

You know what, even though a two year sentence is ridiculously short compared to what other murderers get, I have a different angle on this.

It's too easy for people to get some jobs. Jobs involving responsibility. I think bus drivers should have to be more educated. The standards are set too low for who can become one.

Maybe all bus drivers should have a degree. We need people with critical thinking skills. I'm sure a more clever person wouldn't have done this. This man has not only killed someone, he's ruined his own life to an extent. He has a lifelong record now. All for a bit of sex. That would indicate he's probably not that clever.



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14 Jun 2017, 11:11 am

What if you had to choose between cruisy, "lifestyle" people, not being allowed to participate, or the kid.

That decision was made by hr and the sjw's. It takes a community, and they have chosen this outcome.



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17 Jun 2017, 8:30 pm

Those bus drivers are a couple of sick animals for having sex while the passenger was dying. The fact that most people see us in that light gives me the fuel for my fire that I need to keep doing the Pro-Life work that I'm doing in my community. It also gives me the fuel to prove a whole bunch of people wrong by working at my job and writing letters to the editors of my local papers.


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18 Jun 2017, 1:09 pm

I think, the general public and administrators are empowering complete strangers over our children with a religious sort of faith in human nature, and, without calling you a bad person, per se, favor an exodus from the public school system.

We do not own our own houses, outrightly, in order to pay for this. You do not have an unconditional right to basic shelter, or to pay for it, or to own, or to build it; the party line comes first, before you are even allowed to secure an existence for yourself.

It is no wonder that unaccountable people, such as these, can receive a asocial promotion, a position of trust, which they surely could not have earned.