Trial continues for teaching assistant who dunked disabled kids' heads underwater Catherine Rios, a teaching assistant at the school's pool, submerged the head of a 7-year-old with autism underwater ...

NEW CITY - A teachers aide for a special-education program was found not guilty on four endangerment charges in Rockland County Court Sept. 24. Catherine Rios had been accused of dunking two autistic ...

Rios, a teaching assistant at the school's pool, submerged the head of a 7-year-old with autism underwater to try to get him to calm down and stop spitting water. She then dunked Prince Wilson, 6, who ...

The aide was accused of using two hands to push the heads of the boys underwater in the pool at Jesse Kaplan School. The children were both described as autistic and non-verbal. The judge said that ...