A school bus monitor is facing charges after a 6-year-old girl with special needs died after an incident on a bus ride in New Jersey, prosecutors say.
The school bus monitor who secured the child to the chair was seated toward the front of the bus at the time and "was utilizing a cellular telephone while wearing earbud headphone devices in both ears," the office said.Police responded to a school in Franklin Township shortly after 9 a.m. and administered CPR to the unresponsive child, prosecutors said. She was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Following an investigation, the school bus monitor -- identified by prosecutors as 27-year-old Amanda Davila of New Brunswick -- was arrested on Wednesday and charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, prosecutors said. She was being held in Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing, which is scheduled to occur possibly on Tuesday, the prosecutor's office said. It is unclear if she has an attorney who can speak on her behalf. Attempts by ABC News to reach Davila for comment were unsuccessful.
Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Police Chief Francisco Roman told ABC News they are not releasing the child's name at the wishes of her family. An autopsy report is pending, he said.
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