A West Fargo, North Dakota, special education teacher is under investigation by her school district for insensitive social media posts about her job and her students. Sheridan Tihista, a former Miss Montana beauty pageant winner and teacher at Liberty Middle School, is accused of calling mothers of autistic children “monsters” and students “Satan” on Twitter, according to …
Two Connecticut group home workers were arrested this week for allegedly choking and striking a disabled 19-year-old with a mop and broom. The victim’s mother reported the January 12 incident to the state Department of Developmental Services after noticing bruising on her daughter. Video footage from the Hamden group home showed Victoria Dancy, 50, and Melissa Smith, 41, …
A half-brother of one of Aleah Beckerle’s sisters was arrested in connection with the death of the disabled teen on Friday. Terrence Wayne Roach, 24, is facing murder, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse, burglary resulting in bodily injury, and criminal confinement charges, according to WEHT. The 24-year-old said he got the idea of abducting the …
A mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters took a developmentally disabled 11-year-old to a church and threatened to stop taking him to baseball games unless he’d get baptized, according to a lawsuit filed by the boy’s parents. The suit filed by April and Gregg DeFibaugh Monday in US District Court in Cleveland accused the Big Brother, …
Eight months following her disappearance, the body of disabled teen Aleah Beckerle was discovered in a vacant Indiana home, authorities announced Wednesday. According to the Evansville Courier & Press, remains unearthed in a vacant Evansville house Monday were confirmed as Beckerle, 19, following an autopsy conducted by Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office. Cara Beckerle reported her …
