A twelve-year-old girl who dropped her headphones getting off a public bus could not have known that the driver’s offer to help her find them would lead to her being driven down a side road and sexually assaulted.
That is what a jury accepted this week when they found bus operator Kenroy Graham guilty of indecent assault, rejecting his claim that the whole thing was a setup designed to run him off his bus route.
The incident happened on April 1st, 2022. The girl had boarded Graham’s bus at the West Bus Station heading to Coolidge. When she got off at her stop she bumped her head and lost her headphones in the process. Graham told her she could stay on and look for them after he dropped off his remaining passengers. She agreed.
Once the last passenger was gone, Graham did not return to his normal route. He turned down a side road, stopped the bus, and approached the girl. He asked her about her age and where she lived. He rubbed her upper thigh. He told her he wanted her to be his girlfriend and asked to perform oral sex on her.
She told him she needed to go home. As she was leaving the bus, he asked her to keep quiet about what had happened. She ran home and told her aunt immediately. Police were contacted that same day.
At trial Graham denied everything, claiming from the dock — where he could not be questioned — that someone was trying to take his bus route and had used the child to set him up. He named no one and offered no evidence to support the claim.
The jury did not believe him. Graham was remanded after the verdict and returns to court on March 31st for sentencing.
He always has his eyes on the young little girls on the bus. He interfered with the wrong little girl. Another bus driver who runs that same route is no different from the said accused. I know everyone has to make a living, but the Transport Board keeps giving these sex predators bus licenses to transport our young girls and boys without investigating their background properly. A leopard 🐆 doesn’t change its spots. A few years ago, I had to tell one of them to keep his eyes off my 9-year-old great-niece, or else the police would lock me up instead of him. These older bus drivers are making sexual confrontation with our school children between the ages of 9 and 15 regularly, especially 9 through 13.
bunch of Epstiens living amoung us
which one of our children are safe?
Let children be children. Oral sex? Nastyman. Graham do you even have children?
Situations like this shake parents badly because you sending your child to school expecting protection, not harm. Trust break in the worst possible way here.
WICKED AND NASTY MAN. YOU VIOLATE THE INNOCENT CHILD
Alas. Our children are not even safe on buses
But Graham you aint easy. Someone was trying to take your bus route? Thats the best you could come up with?
He never thought the child would tell her aunty?
Children speak up. Tell your teacher your aunty, your mother tell somebody. So many of our children are being abused and not saying much