A school bus driver has been charged with the assault of a 7-year-old student with autism in Rowan County.

According to the Salisbury Police Department, detectives spoke to a witness and reviewed the video surveillance from the bus before issuing warrants on the school bus driver, Grace Oshields King.

King was charged with misdemeanor assault on a child under 12 and assault on a handicap person. She turned herself into police Thursday and went before a Rowan County magistrate, who released her on a written promise.

The child’s father told WBTV on Wednesday that his non-verbal, autistic, 7-year-old son was assaulted at school by his school bus driver. A teacher at Overton Elementary School says she saw the assault and called police.

“The principal just told me that she had some disturbing news to tell me,” said Shane Church, the boy’s father. “You could tell he (Shane’s son) was kind of upset. I was told that he was hit in the chest.”

Church’s son couldn’t tell his father what happened.

“He is a non-verbal child, can’t tell me anything that happens with him,” Church said.

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