Ohio school bus driver charged with breaking autistic student’s finger

An Olentangy Local School District bus driver has been charged with felonious assault and suspended without pay after allegedly breaking an autistic student’s finger.

Delaware County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to Olentangy Orange High School Tuesday afternoon to meet with the father of the 15-year-old student, who told them that his son had been assaulted by a bus driver.

The bus driver is identified in court records as 50-year-old Joseph Theodore Carter, of Lewis Center, according to court records.

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