Bus driver charged with neglect for choking

Naples, Florida
After one student was choked unconscious by another without apparent notice by the driver, the police arrested and charged the school bus driver with neglect because the driver “failed to provide any assistance to the victim during or after the Oct. 15 attack.”

Even after another student help the victim off the bus onto a sidewalk, the driver "did not get off of the bus to inquire about the seriousness of the injury to the victim, nor did she call 911 or call for medical assistance."

The attacker was arrested and charged as a juvenile with battery.

California High School Student Charged with Trying to Kill Her Baby with Rat Poison

Modesto, CA
A California high school student has been charged with attempted murder after admitting to trying to feed rat poison to her two-week-old baby, police said.

Cashel Phin, 18, was questioned by police after they were tipped off by one of her friends who allegedly heard her talking about dumping her baby in the trash, KTLA-TV reported.
"The suspect admitted to trying to give the baby rat poison, also hitting it with a purse," Modesto Police Department Lt. Jeremy Young said.

Phin's baby, Anna, was just two weeks old at the time of the alleged poisoning attempt.

4-Year-Old Reportedly Abandoned Inside Locked School Bus for Almost 6 Hours

Mansfield, OH
An Ohio mom wants a bus driver to face criminal charges after she says the driver abandoned her 4-year-old daughter inside of a locked school bus for almost six hours, Fox 8 reports.

Rita Adams says the bus driver and her assistant accidentally left her 4-year-old daughter Kizzy on a bus bound for the child's Mansfield preschool.

Adams tells Fox 8 Kizzy's father put her on the bus Tuesday morning, and her daughter fell asleep on her way to school.

Meanwhile, the bus began to have mechanical problems, so the driver decided to switch buses at the garage.

Fox 8 reports the bus driver and her assistant failed to notice the sleeping child, and left her inside the bus with the doors locked and the windows up.

Justice Department Study Reveals School Officials More Likely to Learn of Child Victimization

Washington, DC

According to the research, school officials knew about victimization episodes more often (42 percent) than police (13 percent) or medical personnel (2 percent). Police were the most likely to know about kidnapping, neglect and sexual abuse by an adult. School, police and medical authorities knew about a majority of serious victimizations, including incidents of sexual abuse by an adult, gang assaults and kidnappings, but were mostly unaware of other kinds of serious victimizations, such as dating violence, rape and attempted rape.