Trial continues for teaching assistant who dunked disabled kids' heads underwater Catherine Rios, a teaching assistant at the school's pool, submerged the head of a 7-year-old with autism underwater ...

NEW CITY - A teachers aide for a special-education program was found not guilty on four endangerment charges in Rockland County Court Sept. 24. Catherine Rios had been accused of dunking two autistic ...

Rios, a teaching assistant at the school's pool, submerged the head of a 7-year-old with autism underwater to try to get him to calm down and stop spitting water. She then dunked Prince Wilson, 6, who ...