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   MARTINSBURG, W.V. — Suspecting her 6-year-old daughter with   
   autism was being abused at school, a West Virginia mother hid a   
   recording device in her daughter’s hair, court documents say. On   
   Friday, the girl’s former teacher and two former aides were   
   arrested, the state’s attorney general said.   
      
   Christina Lester, the former teacher, and June Yurish and   
   Kristin Douty, former aides, were charged with misdemeanor   
   failure to report abuse or neglect, according to a press release   
   from West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.   
      
   Amber Pack was concerned when her daughter Adri came home with   
   bruises from Berkeley Heights Elementary in October. The marks   
   appeared to be pressure bruises from tight grips, said Ben   
   Salango, an attorney for the Pack family.   
      
   Adri was nonverbal, but she would cry getting on the bus and   
   didn’t want to leave the house. It was clear she didn’t want to   
   go to school, the attorney said.   
      
   Pack bought a recording device and put it in Adri’s hair bun.   
      
   “She was absolutely shocked by what she heard,” Salango told CNN.   
      
   The teacher and aides at the Martinsburg school threatened Adri   
   and other children, telling them they would hit them in the face   
   and knock their teeth out, and they threatened to withhold food,   
   Salango said.   
      
   “These arrests send a strong message — that child abuse will not   
   be tolerated and must be reported,” Attorney General Patrick   
   Morrisey said in a statement. “We must continue working to   
   ensure vulnerable children are protected, especially at school.”   
      
   The attorney general filed a civil lawsuit in February that   
   accused Lester, Yurish and Douty of verbally abusing the   
   students by threatening physical violence. The comments on the   
   recording “include threats of violence, verbal abuse and other   
   outrages,” according to the complaint.   
      
   The investigation led Morrisey to make criminal referrals to the   
   prosecutor, the statement said.   
      
   The civil complaint was amended in May to include the principal,   
   Amber Boeckmann, and the county’s deputy superintendent,   
   Margaret F. Kursey, alleging they “actively tried to obscure   
   evidence with a flawed investigation,” according to the attorney   
   general’s office.   
      
   The Berkeley County Board of Education was also added as a   
   defendant in the amended civil complaint as “it bears   
   responsibility because those committing the allegations did so   
   during the course of their employment with the board.”   
      
   CNN has reached out to the former teacher, aides, principal,   
   deputy superintendent and the school district for comment.   
   Attorney Christian Riddell, who represents former aides Yurish   
   and Douty, told CNN affiliate WJLA that they have “no comment at   
   this time.”   
      
   Salango said the Pack family is “very happy” that charges have   
   been filed against the teacher and the two aides.   
      
   “We’re pleased that the prosecutor took her time, did a thorough   
   investigation and decided to arrest the three individuals this   
   morning,” the attorney said. “We’ve had faith in the system from   
   the beginning and look forward to a disposition of criminal   
   proceedings.”   
      
   Adri now happily goes to school, the attorney said.   
      
   “She’s in a new school and is in a loving environment and doing   
   much better,” Salango said.   
      
   https://fox5sandiego.com/2019/08/19/former-teacher-2-aides-   
   arrested-after-alleged-abuse-caught-on-secret-recordings/   
       
      
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