Police are searching for an employee of a local behavioral center who is suspected of assaulting an autistic child.
As previously relayed by The Dallas Express, a non-verbal 7-year-old with special needs was allegedly thrown against a wall by an employee of ABA Interactive Therapy Center in North Richland Hills. That employee has been identified by authorities as 31-year-old Ashley Moreno. She is now wanted by the police.
Here’s some of what NBC 5 DFW reported on law enforcement’s search for the suspect:
Following the filing of a civil lawsuit against a behavioral center in North Texas, a director has been arrested, and police are searching for an employee wanted in connection with the alleged assault of a nonverbal child with autism.
The North Richland Hills Police Department said 34-year-old Kiara Henry, the director and owner of ABA Interactive Therapy Center, was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with failure to report, a state jail felony.
According to the police department, two parents called them on Thursday, June 27, about an alleged assault on a 7-year-old boy that happened a week before at ABA Interactive Therapy Center.
The child’s parents, Prabesh Poudel and Ramila Chalise informed authorities that their son, a patient at the facility, had been viciously assaulted by a therapist.
In North Richland Hills police’s new release and the civil suit, it was stated that one of the parents went to pick up the child from the center on June 20, and when they arrived, the parent discovered a large scratch on the child’s face.
The parent was then asked to sign an incident report, which wrote that the child “engaged in maladaptive behavior where he began to have a tantrum and scratched the right side of his face,” the lawsuit claimed.