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NY Health Aide Caught On Camera Slapping Disabled 5-Year-Old, DA Says NY Health Aide Caught On Camera Slapping Disabled 5-Year-Old, DA Says
NY Health Aide Caught On Camera Slapping Disabled 5-Year-Old, DA Says A Long Island home health aide was indicted after prosecutors alleged he was caught on camera repeatedly slapping and mistreating a five-year-old child with disabilities. Bruno Valenzuela, 34, of Brentwood, pleaded not guilty to endangering an incompetent person and acting in a manner injurious to a child in Suffolk County Court on Thursday, Feb. 5. Valenzuela was arrested in January after the boy’s father returned home to their Port Jefferson Station residence and noticed red marks and bruising on the child’s chest and arms, as Daily Voice reported. An investigation found that Valenzuela …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Uber Driver Knocks Biotech CEO Unconscious Over Service Dog, Lawsuit Claims (Video) Uber Driver Knocks Biotech CEO Unconscious Over Service Dog, Lawsuit Claims (Video)
Uber Driver Knocks Biotech CEO Unconscious Over Service Dog, Lawsuit Claims (Video) A biotechnology executive is reportedly suing Uber after a video showed one of its drivers punching him in the face while he was holding his service dog. Bryan Kobel, CEO of United Kingdom-based TC BioPharm, filed the lawsuit on Monday, Aug. 18, according to The Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.  The suit claims that Kobel was knocked unconscious while waiting for a ride with his girlfriend outside Maison, a French restaurant on Upper King Street in Charleston, on Thursday, April 24. According to the lawsuit, the driver, identified as 42-year-old Vadim Nik…

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by Chris Spiker
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TA Gets More Charges After Pushing Students' Heads Underwater In HV School Pool: DA TA Gets More Charges After Pushing Students' Heads Underwater In HV School Pool: DA
TA Gets More Charges After Pushing Students' Heads Underwater In HV School Pool: DA A Rockland County teaching assistant accused of submerging two non-verbal autistic children underwater during a class session has now been indicted by a grand jury on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, prosecutors announced. Catherine Rios, 54, of Nyack, was indicted by a Rockland County grand jury on two felony counts of first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child, Rockland County District Attorney Tom Walsh announced on Tuesday, May 27.   The charges stem from an alle…

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by Ben Crnic
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School Employee From Dutchess County Accused Of Shoving, Endangering Disabled Student School Employee From Dutchess County Accused Of Shoving, Endangering Disabled Student
School Employee From Dutchess County Accused Of Shoving, Endangering Disabled Student A 28-year-old employee of a school in the region faces a felony charge after allegedly endangering a disabled student, police said. The events leading to the arrest began in Northern Westchester at around 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, when a suspicious incident at the Shrub Oak International School at 3151 Stony St. prompted a police response, Yorktown Police announced on Friday, Nov. 15.  An investigation determined that a school employee, identified as Dutchess County resident Sebastian Borba-Ferreira of East Fishkill, allegedly shoved and "committed other endangering actions" on…

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by Ben Crnic