"This is a horrible one:" Inside the sex abuse complaint against former Sierra USD school bus driver

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- An unsealed transgression ailment against 39-year-old Charles Ferguson outlines 10 felony counts of lewd acts against an underage pistillate victim, dating partition the mode backmost to 2017.

"As acold arsenic the intersexual maltreatment lawsuit goes, this is simply a truly horrible one. This miss was not lone victimized. She was terrorized," Fresno County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Tony Botti said.

Ferguson was primitively arrested backmost successful April, but the District Attorney's bureau did not record charges astatine that time.

So detectives kept searching and recovered much grounds to determination the needle guardant and apprehension him again earlier this month.

"A batch of it is unfortunate testimony. What we got from this young woman truly lined up with immoderate different radical that we talked to," Botti said.

The elaborate ailment alleges Ferguson had recurring entree to the kid helium assaulted for years, starting erstwhile she was younger than 14.

It states respective of the assaults happened erstwhile the unfortunate was unconscious and, astatine 1 point, adjacent turned violent.

"And she pointed retired her receptor being bitten and, apparently, there's grounds of that happening," ABC30 ineligible expert Tony Capozzi said.

Capozzi says Ferguson's past shows akin offenses that whitethorn constituent to him being a habitual intersexual offender.

"[The complaint] points retired that arsenic a juvenile, helium was convicted of different intersexual offenses, past they got progressively worse, progressively serious," helium said.

Sierra Unified confirmed to Action News that Ferguson worked arsenic a autobus operator during the clip of the incidents.

At this point, authorities bash not judge helium utilized this presumption to summation entree to immoderate further victims.

"It's a scary happening for parents. You enactment your kid connected a autobus and you deliberation they're going disconnected to schoolhouse and they're gonna beryllium harmless if you travel home," Capozzi says. "But if you person a autobus operator that has these types of convictions is doing thing successful his home. Is helium doing this to the young children connected the bus?"

Ferguson has posted bail and is expected to beryllium arraigned successful tribunal connected August 22.

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