Police advised that unless the Aughtersons were going to press charges against the boy who abused Jalen, there nothing they could do. Once one tear came out, they all came out.”įrom there, the school contacted the police. “After going to the school and showing them the footage on Jalen’s phone, I just broke down watching it again. “The driver, who had been driving Jalen for five years, went white like he’d seen a ghost. “When the bus came the next morning, I went out and told the driver that Jalen wouldn’t be on board that morning because he had been sexually assaulted,” Mr Aughterson said. Jalen Aughterson was sexually abused by another disabled student while on board the school bus.įollowing the discovery, Mrs and Mrs Aughterson approached the school with the footage - where they were redirected to the bus company, Crown Coaches, who own the bus where the sexual assault occurred.
