Pa. worker charged in autistic man’s hot-van death

PENNDEL, Pa. (AP) — A counselor has been charged with neglect and manslaughter in the death of a 20-year-old autistic man who was left in a hot van for several hours.

Forty-year-old Stacey Strauss, of Philadelphia, is charged in the July 24 death of Bryan Nevins outside Woods Services, a treatment home in suburban Philadelphia.

Police say Strauss was responsible for Nevins and another client on an outing to an amusement park. They say she was driving the van and returned only one of the clients to the home before parking the vehicle.

Strauss is expected to be arrested and arraigned later Tuesday on a felony neglect charge and misdemeanor counts of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.