9 months later, Mother finds out bus driver choked mentally challenged son on bus

I just found this on CNN and outraged over this happening, but more angry that no one bothered to tell the child's Mother. The WFAA news had to tell her 9 months later!
Bus driver 'chokes' bipolar student on tape

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Video of a bus driver choking a mentally challenged student sparks an investigation. WFAA's Shelly Slater reports.


Video shows Dallas bus driver choking student

12:01 AM CST on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By SHELLY SLATER / WFAA-TV


DALLAS - A camera captured images of a mentally challenged-bipolar student being choked by a school bus driver in Dallas.

On a normal day, the Dallas County bus driver, Janet Pitts, would have a monitor on board to help with students like Xavier, a middle school student. But that wasn't the case one day in January. The monitor couldn't make it that day.

Within minutes of the bus pulling away from the school, Xavier began to act up by moving around the bus and shouting obscenities.

Watching the video, Pitts' patience begins to visibly wear out.

Just weeks ago, News 8 set out with only the tape in hand to find out the details of the incident. Once News 8 found Xavier's family, it was discovered they were never informed of the incident.

For the first time, Xavier's mom - Claudia Nava - saw the video, which was recorded nine months ago. The same week of the incident, Nava reported scratches on her son. A Dallas County employee followed up but never told Nava the driver admitted to choking her son.

"It makes me really mad," Nava said.

Nava said she knows her son can be violent. She requested a monitor to be on board the bus for that very reason.

"I want everyone to understand he's not acting that way because he wants to," she said. "He just can't express himself."

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