Garnet Collins, a school aide at the Anderson Center for Autism in Staatsburg, New York, pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of an incompetent person after being caught on video grabbing and dragging an autistic student by his testicles. The abuse occurred at the center which receives millions of dollars in state and city funds to educate students with severe autism. Collins faces possible deportation due to his guilty plea.
An immigrant school aide caught on tape grabbing and dragging an autistic Queens student by his testicles has pleaded guilty to a felony and faces possible deportation.
The whistleblower who recorded the abuse testified that similar assaults occurred frequently in the residential center, but that supervisors “turned a blind eye,” said the dad. He has called on authorities to investigate possible criminal negligence, and state lawmakers to mandate surveillance cameras in public areas of such facilities.
In a Dutchess County criminal courtroom Wednesday, Collins first told Judge Edward McLoughlin, “I hold him by his waist, your honor.” In a video recorded by a fellow aide, Collins is seen gripping the youth’s crotch and yelling, “Go to your room!” while the youth screams in pain, crying, “I want to call Mommy!”Collins also admitted hitting another autistic student in the head with a laptop, bruising him. That charge was dropped as part of his plea deal.
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