WHITEHOUSE, Texas (KETK) -- A mother's trust was shattered when she discovered her 4-year-old son, a high-functioning autistic child, had suffered second-degree burns while under the care of an after-school program.

On Sept. 18, Marcella Boles, a mother from Whitehouse ISD, reported that she picked up her 4-year-old son from the Mentoring Alliance after-school program at Brown Elementary, finding burns on his arm.

Courtesy of Marcella Boles

"I blamed myself, I blamed myself, because I trusted these people," Boles said.

She mentioned that her son, who is high-functioning autistic and reads at a second-grade level, had been placed in a janitor's closet by a staff member from Mentoring Alliance due to misbehavior. She has seen video evidence showing that Emma Souder took her son to the cl

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