'I wanted it to be something else': Mom whose nonverbal son was 'shaking' after his routine therapy appointment was horrified when she saw the video

A Florida therapist allegedly utilized items that are expected to stimulate children with autism to onslaught the child, beating the young nonverbal lad with a shoe, tennis racket and book.

Reylan Cortes-Garnier, 28, is facing a complaint of child abuse without large bodily harm. According to a probable origin apprehension affidavit, the incidental occurred Feb. 20 astatine Maximum Achievers successful West Palm Beach. Cortes-Garnier, a registered behaviour technician, had been moving with the lad for astir a year.

But the boy's parent became acrophobic erstwhile helium came location with bruises and different marks connected his body.

"The archetypal happening I noticed, I saw helium was shaking," the mother, Diana Hernandez, told section CBS affiliate WPEC.

She went to the manager of the installation and asked to reappraisal video from her son's league with Cortes-Garnier. She said that what she saw adjacent horrified her.

The video depicted Cortes-Garnier "engaging successful aggregate intentional acts of kid abuse," cops wrote, including allegedly throwing a shot astatine the lad "at precocious velocity." Cortes-Garnier besides took disconnected his footwear and bushed the lad with it, officers said. He past allegedly deed the lad respective times with a racket and book.

Hernandez noticed the lad had a wound people on with bruises to his shoulder, ribcage and little backmost area. She took him to the infirmary for aesculapian valuation and doctors determined his injuries were "consistent with carnal trauma."

Hernandez told the manager of the installation that she wanted to get constabulary involved, but she said the manager was allegedly initially hesitant to bash so.

"Why are you risking your full concern for this man?" she said, per WPEC. "You're expected to beryllium taking attraction of my kids. I enactment my kids successful your hands."

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Cops reviewed the video with the director, who told them "such behaviour is strictly prohibited astatine her installation and is not accordant with immoderate established policy, grooming protocol oregon individualized behaviour plan."

The manager said Cortes-Garnier "profusely apologized" erstwhile she confronted him astir the incidental and showed him the video. He has since been fired.

Hernandez told WPEC that her lad was "traumatized" but is doing better. She said the full concern has been upsetting.

"I conscionable privation justice. I conscionable privation justness for my son," she said. "I honestly wanted it to beryllium a lie. I wanted it to not beryllium true. I wanted it to beryllium thing else."

Cortes-Garnier was arrested connected Friday and has since posted a $7,500 bond. His adjacent tribunal day is acceptable for March 29.