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Ex-Staffer At CT Group Home Attacked Autistic Patient, Broke Their Nose: Police
Police in Connecticut are investigating a former group home employee who is accused of attacking an autistic patient so violently that the non-verbal woman needed to be hospitalized, authorities said.
Kendra A. Demudd, 28, of Hartford, was arrested and charged with assault on a person with an intellectual disability, reckless endangerment, and cruelty to persons, Wethersfield Police said. She was being held on a $50,000 bond.
Demudd, a former employee at HARC, a group home on Eastern Drive in Wethersfield, is accused of repeatedly assaulting the 28-year-old resident in the early…
Man Charged With Abusing Child On School Bus In Darien
A Fairfield County man has been charged with assault and risk of injury to a child after he was seen on video biting, licking, and hitting a young boy on a school bus.
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, age 27, of Bridgeport, was arrested on Monday, June 17, by Darien Police for the incident that occurred in April on a school bus.
According to Sgt. Mauricio Vigil of the Darien Police, on Thursday, April 4, the Trumbull Police Department alerted the department about an incident that occurred on a school bus while it was in Darien transporting students from a private special education school in Stam…
Amber Alert Update: 2-Year-Old Abducted In NYC Found After Near 24-Hour Search
Update:
The 2-year-old girl with autism who was abducted in New York City has been found safe and a suspect is in custody after a nearly 24-hour search.
Seniya Benitez, 2, who is non-verbal and has autism, was kidnapped by her father, 21-year-old Christian Benitez, who is not permitted to have unsupervised contact, in the Bronx near Gleason Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, police say.
No further details have been released.
Original report:
An Amber Alert has been issued following the abduction of an infant in New York City.
Seniya Benitez, 2, who is non-verbal and has autism, w…
Education Fund Started For Son Of Area Attorney Killed In Plane Crash
Frends and family of a man who grew up in Northern Westchester and was an attorney in Fairfield County and one of three victims in a fatal plane crash have started an education fund for his son.
Richard Terbrusch, 53, of Ridgefield, was killed Saturday, Oct. 13 in a plane crash along with two other people, including the pilot Munidat "Raj" Persaud, the owner of a Danbury flight training company, and Dr. Jennifer Landrum, a teacher at Thomson High School in Georgia.
Terbrusch, a 1983 graduate of John Jay High School in Cross River whose family law practice was in Danbury, left behi…
