A six-year-old disabled girl has tragically died on her bus to school after the harness securing her wheelchair choked her to death.
The 27-year-old bus monitor tasked with caring for Fajr Williams is now facing charges of manslaughter.
It has been alleged Amanda Davila was playing on her phone instead of watching the young girl during the incident in Somerset County, New Jersey, on Monday (July 17).
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The six-year-old was born with a rare chromosome disorder that left her without the agility to speak or walk.
According to reports by the Daily Mail, Fajr was seated in her wheelchair several rows behind her carer who sat at the front of the bus.
A harness was used to secure her chair, it tightened around the girl when the bus hit several bumps in the road, restricting her breathing, until she suffocated.
Davila, who has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree injury to a child.
Police say Davila ignored the tragedy unfolding close to her while she played on her phone with her headphones in.
Fejr’s father Wali Williams, 44 told NBC-4 that he and his wife recalled taking one last look at their late daughter before she was brought to a coroner.
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He said: “She didn't have oxygen in her brain for almost 40 minutes.
“Do you understand the image that we got in our head of our daughter the last time that we seen her? What we had to go through?”
Her mother Namjah Nash Williams, 38, has slammed officials for allowing such a tragedy to occur.
A police investigation found that Devila’s use of headphones and her phone was in violation of policies and procedures for school bus monitors at Franklin Township Board of Education.
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Nash Williams said: “She was the sweetest kid you'll ever meet, she had the sweetest little laugh, little dimples and she just endured so much in her six years.
“'To be taken away from us in such a way,' the Somerset mom lamented, that had nothing to do with her condition.”
Vanessa Miranda, a spokeswoman for the Franklin Township Board of Education, added to the Times in an email that “obviously the community is saddened by this recent tragedy.”
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