{"id":525344,"date":"2021-05-19T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525344"},"modified":"2021-05-19T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:20:58","slug":"school-bus-driver-faces-charges-leave-after-allegedly-slapping-10-year-old-girl-for-improperly-wearing-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-bus-driver-faces-charges-leave-after-allegedly-slapping-10-year-old-girl-for-improperly-wearing-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bus Driver Faces Charges Leave After Allegedly Slapping 10-Year-Old Girl For Improperly Wearing Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschool-bus-driver-faces-charges-leave-after-allegedly-slapping-10-year-old-girl-for-improperly-wearing-mask%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525344&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-95590578-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Colorado bus driver has been placed on administrative leave and faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault after allegedly slapping a 10-year-old over a mask dispute.<\/p>\n<p>KKTV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kktv.com\/2021\/05\/18\/colorado-bus-driver-facing-charges-for-allegedly-slapping-kid-over-mask\/\">reported<\/a> that the incident occurred in April in Fremont County, just south of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to documents obtained by 11 News, several girls were arguing about masks in the back of the bus. In a written statement to the school, the 10-year-old girl says she wasn\u2019t feeling well so she moved her mask below her nose. She goes on to say the bus driver, Bertram Jaquez, came to the back of the bus to see what was happening. She writes he tried to move her mask up, and then she says he slapped her for not moving the mask up,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Jaquez provided a written statement to the school district in which he admitted to slapping the young girl. \u201cOut of reaction, I slapped her once,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was caught on camera, with the faces of students blurred to protect their identities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Fremont County School District said Jaquez had been placed on administrative lead pending an investigation:<\/p>\n<p><em>We believe it is never okay to lay a hand on a child. The District responded quickly to the situation by placing the driver on administrative leave so that we could fully investigate the incident. Local police were involved during the investigation as well as us being in contact with the child\u2019s family. The driver\u2019s action justified termination of employment, as it goes against District policy and our values. We are very saddened by this incident. Our goal every day is to transport students safely to school and back home, but that can only happen when everyone, including students and staff, follows the rules. We are currently working to identify next steps to help our drivers with strategies designed to support a safe ride to and from school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In her written statement, the 10-year-old girl said she gets \u201csick from masks,\u201d so she pulled it down over her nose and was told by other students to \u201cput on your mask.\u201d She said the bus driver then came back and told her to pull up her mask. She said she told Jaquez to \u201cshut up your [sic] not involved in this,\u201d and then he slapped her. She also said she asked to get off the bus after the incident, but Jacquez kept driving.<\/p>\n<p>The girl\u2019s distaste for wearing a mask was echoed recently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-10-year-old-boy-obliterates-school-boards-mask-mandate\">a viral video<\/a> of a 10-year-old boy explaining to his local school board that \u201cBreathing freely doesn\u2019t seem like something we should have to ask any other people for permission for.\u201d The boy said that he has allergies and feels anxious when he wears a mask, which he said also give him headaches. He added that his teachers regularly take \u201cmask breaks\u201d but that he and his classmates are not allowed to do the same.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Colorado bus driver has been placed on administrative leave and faces misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault after allegedly slapping a 10-year-old over a mask dispute.KKTV reported that the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278543,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-95590578-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"School Bus Driver Faces Charges Leave After Allegedly Slapping 10-Year-Old Girl For Improperly Wearing Mask","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-95590578-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"School Bus Driver Faces Charges Leave After Allegedly Slapping 10-Year-Old Girl For Improperly Wearing Mask","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}