Posted on 12/20/2007 8:25:30 AM PST by redrunner
DETROIT -- A Detroit bus driver was arrested after allegedly trying to pick up a prostitute while driving special-needs children to school on Wednesday morning.
The 30-year-old man was arrested after he drove the bus up to a decoy officer posing as a prostitute working in the area of Telegraph and Grand River roads and inquired about having sex with her, police said.
Police said at the time, the driver only had one child on the bus. He told the decoy officer he would be right back, said police.
Police said a few moments later he returned with three more special needs children on the bus and offered to pay the officer to have sex with him.
The driver handed the decoy officer a paper with his name and phone number, police said.
The driver was arrested on the spot around 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
"At the end of the day, this is certainly not somebody that ought to be driving a school bus," said Evans.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office may pursue charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge for offering to engage in prostitution.
Police said the driver had planned on dropping off the four special needs children, ages 5 to 9 years old at McKenney elementary school on Evergreen Road and return to have sex.
The deputies took the children from the bus and drove them to school. The principal helped deputies to personally notify each of the children's parents.
"In my 35 years in law enforcement, I've seen a lot of outrageous things, particularly in the area of prostitution," said Wayne County Sheriff Warren C. Evans. "But the very idea that someone entrusted with the safety and security of special-needs children would instead put his own selfish and illicit needs first, blows my mind."
So sick, both the bus driver and the cop!
Guess he didn’t have “exact change”.........
Well it was a “special needs” bus.
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