Teacher's Aides Accused of Torturing Special Needs Students

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Oct. 21) -- Teacher's aides severely abused special-needs children at a Montana school, the families of five students charge. One mother describes what her autistic son was subjected to as "waterboarding-like torture."
Julie Parish and Kristina Marie Kallies, who have resigned as aides, are charged with assault on a minor and endangering the welfare of children. Parish appeared in court Monday and was released on bond. Police are still looking for Kallies, KFBB reported.

Parents of students who were in the 7th and 8th grade special-ed class at North Middle School in Great Falls last school year sat in the courtroom, some holding photos of their kids.

Tiffonie Schilling cried as she described what witnesses report was done to her 14-year-old son, Garrett. An aide allegedly held the boy's head under a water faucet when he dozed off in class.

"He was having waterboarding-like torture done to him on a frequent basis,” Schilling said. A fellow student also said teachers made Garrett "eat his own vomit."

Garrett Schilling can't speak because of his autism, so he couldn't explain what was happening, his mom added. "A child who can’t defend himself, it’s a huge violation.”

Other parents told stories of abuse that included a girl being hit in the head with a pan and a boy being locked in a closet.
Parish and Kallies resigned after the families made their allegations, the school district said. Both reportedly denied the charges in interviews with police, according to Montana's News Station.com.

Although school district officials said they did a thorough investigation and are cooperating with police, the Great Falls representative to the Montana Legislature urged the state attorney general to conduct an independent probe.

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What it is with all of these teacher-student abuse cases recently? All of these sick bastards seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

And if the story itself isn't enough to significantly lower your faith in humanity, try reading the comments. It's like reading the comments of apologists for the JRC, but possibly worse.

I'm hoping that these two aides spend quite a long time in prison, but given how lenient the system seems to be with people like Wendy Portillo, I worry that it's a bit too much to expect.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

What scares me even more is the comments of some of the people commenting on the story. If that represents the average jury member in that county then those aides will probably get a suspended sentence.

That is very uncalled for.

This is what I'm afraid of, personally. What with how many "aversives" are actually legal and considered morally permissible in the U.S., I don't find it too much of a stretch to imagine the jury falling for the teachers' inevitable bleatings about how "there's no other way to deal with kids like this!" and similar loads of crap.

Really tests the patience doesn't it? It just seems to me like we have fully grown adults who still have the mentality of blowing up frogs for fun and tormenting defenceless creatures. That such ignorance exists out there makes me despair.

Kinda makes a person sick to the stomach knowing the NT attitude of ITS OK TO PRACTICE WATERBOARDING AND OTHER TORTURE TECHNIQUES ON AUTISTIC CHILDREN BUT HEAVEN FORBID IT IF THIS IS DONE TO CAPTURED TERRORISTS.....Typical hypocrisy of the bleating human rights crowd at best.

Why are you assuming that the people against waterboarding captured terrorists and the people (in the comments section) in favor of waterboarding autistic children are the same people?.

I think it was horrible what was done to these children and wish I was on the jury so I could vote "guilty". I also am not in favor of waterboarding or otherwise torturing captured terrosrists.


Hard as it may be for you to imagine, there are lots of people like myself who are aginst torture in general and don't think anybody should be tortured.

For the record, I am aginst aversives and do not think they should be legal (the Judge Rotenburg Center Center should be forbidden). I don't know why you are assuming that if I am against torturing terrorist suspects I must somehow be in favor of torturing these children.

That's horrible i hope both those teachers aide get beat up bad in prison by inmates who have autistic relatives! Or any inmates for that matter.

Montana? that's just the next state over from me... anyone got an EM rifle so I can snipe these guys from their prison cell? Should be able to reach them from one of the nearby mountain summits...

Just say that he was a terr'st A-rab, that'll make it ok.

Same here, these teachers aides are scum.

Oh my god,it's horrible that someone could do that to any child, especially ones that can't defend themselves.

This makes me physically sick.

That is horrible(vomits on computer desk repetedly) lets hope they drop the soap in prision

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