The bus monitor’s job is to keep kids safe getting onto and off of the bus. King never expected her monitor would be the one in need of saving. “She’s my friend.

A bus monitor who was looking at her cellphone and wearing earbuds when a disabled 6-year-old girl was strangled by her wheelchair harness was convicted of child endangerment on Monday.

The bus was carrying 19 students at the time, as well as the bus monitor and the driver. Chavis also had 5 of his children in his car. The entire altercation was caught on the bus’s recording ...