Posted on December 22, 2011
LOUISVILLE, KY - The mother of a 9-year-old autistic boy said public school employees stuffed her son into a ball bag for misbehaving.
Sandra Baker’s son Chris is enrolled in a special needs program at Mercer County Intermediate School in central Kentucky. She said she was called to the school on Dec. 14 after receiving a call that Chris had been acting up.
“When I walked in,” Baker told CBS affiliate WKYT-TV, “I went down his hallway, and I saw this big green bag laying in the floor beside the aide that was sitting beside the bag, and I saw it moving.”
She was told Chris was in the bag as punishment and that it was a form of therapy.
“It was a drawstring at the top and it had a hole about this big around left in the top of it,” Baker described, indicating a small opening. “There was no way he could get out of it, could not get his head through it if he needed to.”
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Online petition protesting alleged abuse of autistic student gains thousands of signatures
Posted: Dec 24, 2011
LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB) –
The alleged abuse of a 9-year-old Kentucky boy who was stuffed in a duffle bag continues to garner national attention.
An online petition created by an autism advocate now has thousands of signatures. 18-year-old student Lydia Brown, says when she heard about the case of Chris Baker, she had to do something.
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An online petition created by an autism advocate now has thousands of signatures. 18-year-old student Lydia Brown, says when she heard about the case of Chris Baker, she had to do something.
To read the complete story and view the news video, please click on the link below.