Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
A Near West Side school bus driver is charged with the sexual assault of a high school girl who was the last person on his bus one day last spring, the Chicago Breaking News Center reported.
The 26-year-old West Madison Street defendant was ordered held on $50,000 bail in the Chicago sexual assault case for allegedly attacking a 17-year-old girl on March 24.
The paper reported he was already free on $50,000 for a related case in which he allegedly tried to intimidate the victim in the attack.
The defendant works for Jewel’s Bus. Co. and appeared in court wearing his blue company jacket with his name over the right side of the chest, according to the News Center. As reported on Chicago Personal Injury Lawyer blog in September, a personal injury lawsuit and criminal charges were filed against another Jewel’s Bus Co. driver in September in connection with the alleged kidnapping and sexual assault of a boy on his bus.
In this case, the girl was a student at a private South Side alternative school and was being driven home. The defendant is accused of pulling over and taking the girl to the back of the bus, where he fondled her and ordered her to perform sex acts on him. The girl was then driven home and immediately reported the assault. The incident occurred in the 8200 block of South Luella Avenue, according to police.
Since then, prosecutors allege the defendant has gone to the victim’s home on three occasions, where he tried to intimidate her. In the most recent incident, authorities allege the defendant restrained the girl and threatened to beat her up.
He is slated to appear in court on Feb. 2, where he will appear on the criminal sexual assault charge.