For Jaime Nelson, it’s the screams, the blood-curdling screams, of her 7-year-old son that haunt her most, and rack her with guilt, pain — and anger.
The boy, who has autism, was assaulted by an aide on an Ann Arbor, Michigan, school bus — pinned down, smacked and restrained — and his mom wasn’t there to protect him as he frantically yelled for help and flailed his arms. Moreover, the mother was kept in the dark about the incident for five weeks, she said, and didn’t know exactly what happened to her child until four months later, when a detective showed her a videotape of the incident at the Pittsfield Township police station.
