An educational assistant has been found guilty of assaulting a student with autism.
Corey Stibbard sat quietly in a Barrie court on Thursday as a judge found him guilty of assault causing bodily harm.
Stibbard assaulted Riley Dooley while on a field trip at a dollar store in 2014. The assault left Dooley with a broken tibia and fibula.
“Anytime I had to hear about my son laying on the floor in that kind of pain and that he was bleeding and knowing what he looked like when he arrived at hospital it kills yeah every time,” says Riley’s mother Patty Dooley.
The EA testified that Dooley attacked him three times and blocked Dooley’s kicks with his foot, which he claimed resulted in the broken bones.
But Stibbard initially told paramedics, the store manager and school authorities that Dooley had fallen.
While delivering the verdict, Justice Robert Gattrell said “he was not credible, he told numerous lies.”
He went on to say Stibbard “provided false information regarding what happened… fabricated evidence and made implausible statements.”
Stibbard was working with the Simcoe County District School Board at the time.
The verdict was delayed more than two months, after a last minute witness came forward to provide testimony.
Gattrell called the witness’s testimony, “a concocted story, cooked up and not credible.”
A sentencing hearing will be held on March 3.
