Two Indiana Boys, Ages 7 And 8, Charged With Beating Bus Driver

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Apr 19, 2012 10:20PM

Two young boys in Michigan City, Ind., are facing battery charges after they allegedly attacked their bus driver because they didn't like being told to stop playing around. The boys, ages seven and eight, were horsing around on the bus. Lucille Buke, a 73-year-old bus monitor asked them to settle down, but the boys cursed at her. Bus driver Shaunda Gilbert, 35, stopped the bus to lend her a hand, and that's when things got out of hand. ABC writes:

One of the boys became enraged when Gilbert and Buke asked him to calm down and he then tried to leave the bus. When Gilbert tried to stop him he allegedly shoved her to the ground, jumped on top of her, grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head against the floor of the bus. The other boy involved in the earlier disruptions joined in the beating.

Randy Rohrer noticed the bus stopped but didn’t think much of it until a neighbor ran to his door for help. “He said the bus driver come out of the bus and her face is all red and she’s crying,” Rohrer said. “Pulled her hair, he had gobs of hair all over the bus where he had pulled her hair out; face was all red from him punching her.”

Rohrer helped the bus monitors subdue the boys. They were cited by police for misdemeanor battery charges and released to their parents.