CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — Chesapeake police have arrested and charged a
city school bus driver for sexual crimes involving local elementary
students.
Chesapeake police spokeswoman Kelly O’Sullivan said investigators arrested 70-year-old Larry Homan June 30. He was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of taking indecent liberties with children.
This comes after school bus surveillance video showed him touching student’s chests and genitals while they sat on his lap, according to court paperwork.
Homan drove students from Carver Intermediate and Thurgood Marshall Elementary schools, where the alleged crimes happened. He molested students on different dates while the bus was parked in front of the schools, waiting for school staff to get students at the beginning of the day, according to an affidavit.
The affidavit states a parent reported underwear missing from her four-year-old daughter’s backpack in late April, and that a complaint prompted Chesapeake Public School officials to review video footage from the bus.
A search warrant dated June 25 lists more than 20 items taken from Homan’s Norfolk home by police, as part of the investigation.
Homan is scheduled for a bond hearing in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court July 9. He declined an interview request and no one answered the door at his Norfolk home Wednesday afternoon.
10 On Your Side had questions about Homan’s history with Chesapeake Public Schools, but spokeswoman Kellie Goral would not address them.
“This is a personnel matter. The individual is not presently driving a bus for the school division. We have no further comment,” she wrote in an email.
Goral would not say whether Homan has been fired, whether Chesapeake Public Schools ran a background check on him, or how long he continued to drive after complaints surfaced.
She also refused to comment on whether Chesapeake Public Schools notified parents of the charges against Homan, or whether school officials have protocol in place that will prevent something like this from happening again.
Stay with 10 On Your Side as we continue to press for answers from Chesapeake Public Schools.
Chesapeake police spokeswoman Kelly O’Sullivan said investigators arrested 70-year-old Larry Homan June 30. He was charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of taking indecent liberties with children.
This comes after school bus surveillance video showed him touching student’s chests and genitals while they sat on his lap, according to court paperwork.
Homan drove students from Carver Intermediate and Thurgood Marshall Elementary schools, where the alleged crimes happened. He molested students on different dates while the bus was parked in front of the schools, waiting for school staff to get students at the beginning of the day, according to an affidavit.
The affidavit states a parent reported underwear missing from her four-year-old daughter’s backpack in late April, and that a complaint prompted Chesapeake Public School officials to review video footage from the bus.
A search warrant dated June 25 lists more than 20 items taken from Homan’s Norfolk home by police, as part of the investigation.
Homan is scheduled for a bond hearing in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court July 9. He declined an interview request and no one answered the door at his Norfolk home Wednesday afternoon.
10 On Your Side had questions about Homan’s history with Chesapeake Public Schools, but spokeswoman Kellie Goral would not address them.
“This is a personnel matter. The individual is not presently driving a bus for the school division. We have no further comment,” she wrote in an email.
Goral would not say whether Homan has been fired, whether Chesapeake Public Schools ran a background check on him, or how long he continued to drive after complaints surfaced.
She also refused to comment on whether Chesapeake Public Schools notified parents of the charges against Homan, or whether school officials have protocol in place that will prevent something like this from happening again.
Stay with 10 On Your Side as we continue to press for answers from Chesapeake Public Schools.
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