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When Sandra Baker was called to pick up her 9-year-old autistic son, Chris, from his Mercer County, Kentucky school, she was stunned by what she found: She says that Chris's teacher had stuffed him in a gym bag and left him in the hallway as punishment.
"When I walked in," Sandra told CBS News, "I went down his hallway, and I saw this big green bag laying in the floor beside the [teacher's] aide, and I saw it moving."
Then Sandra heard a voice come from inside the bag: "Momma, is that you?"
Sandra demanded her son be released immediately, but allegedly the bag was tied so tightly the teacher's aide struggled to open it. When Chris finally got out, his mom says he was sweaty and uncommunicative.
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At a meeting with school officials last week, Sandra learned this wasn't the first time Chis had been stuffed in the duffel bag as punishment. The teachers allegedly referred to the duffel as a "therapy bag," but lacking even basic training for working with autistic children, were unable to explain how confining Chris to a drawstring bag constituted "therapy" of any kind.
Here's the worst part: after her meeting, Sandra says she rec eived no guarantee that this kind of abuse wouldn't happen again -- either to Chris or to other students in Mercer County schools.