Email reveals disabled girl, 7, who died on school bus was not properly buckled by care staff

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A Cincinnati Public School email has revealed a seven-year-old disabled girl who died on a school bus was not properly strapped in her seat by the bus driver.

Published: 20:32 GMT, 14 November 2026 | Updated: 20:35 GMT, 14 November 2026

A Cincinnati Public Schools email has revealed a seven-year-old disabled girl who died on a school bus was not properly strapped in her seat by the bus driver.

Ngone Talla, 7, died on September 16 after a seat belt wrapped around her neck and left her unresponsive while a bus driver drove her home from Roselawn Condon School in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ngone was a nonverbal student with cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities. She also used a wheelchair.

According to a Hamilton County Coroner's Office report, Talla suffered 'positional asphyxiation' while sitting in a 'five point' seat belt made to fit her wheelchair.

Although the coroner's office ruled the manner of the death accidental, an email from Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) Superintendent Shauna Murphy revealed the monitor on the bus did not properly strap the child into her seat, WCPO reported.

'I spoke with John Kenning from First Student. He shared the driver and the monitor on the bus did not strap her on appropriately, causing her death,' Murphy wrote in a September 16 email, according to the outlet.

The outlet stated the autopsy report described Ngone moving her arms and legs in the wheelchair while on the bus due to her disability symptoms.

Ngone's backside then slipped off the wheelchair seat, causing the seat belt to compress her right neck and chin.

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