State Courts

Wichita school bus driver charged with fondling 6-year-old

By Ron Sylvester

A 73-year-old Wichita school bus driver has been charged with fondling a 6-year-old girl.

Billy J. Reynolds made his first appearance Tuesday morning to hear charges against him on four counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Prosecutors say he engaged in lewd touching of the girl from October until his arrest Jan. 6.

Susan Arensman, spokeswoman for Wichita Public Schools, said the girl’s parent reported the acts to the principal at Emerson Open Magnet Elementary, who called the Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children’s Unit. Arensman said Reynolds, employed privately by Durham School Services, was fired the day after the district received the complaint. He had driven a bus for 16 years.

Reynolds’ preliminary hearing is tentatively set for Feb. 3.

Full post as published by What the Judge Ate for Breakfast on January 21, 2009 (boomark / email).