Max Benson

Three school employees charged in the death of an autistic teen

CALIFORNIA- Three school employees have been arrested in the death an autistic teen.

According to KXTV, the 13-year-old special needs student whose name is Max Benson was placed face-down in a prone restraint at Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills by a teacher and died.

The teacher, Kimberly Wohlwend told police that Benson had allegedly spat on another student and became violent before he was restrained.

According to court documents obtained by The Sacramento Bee, Benson was restrained for an hour and 45 minutes.

CPR was reportably given to the teen who had severe autism, but unfortunately he died two days later at a Hospital.

Wohlwend is set to be arraigned this Wednesday on felony involuntary manslaughter charges, the school’s executive director Cindy Keller and the principal Staranne Meyers according to prosecutors.

Such a heartbreaking story. We leave our children in the hands of people who are trained to not abuse our children, and here they are doing the complete opposite in this case.

I hope that they are punished to the fullest extent of the law in the death of this boy, who’s mother has to live with a broken heart for the rest of her life..

 

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