School Bus Driver Arrested for Allegedly Molesting Children

December 22, 2011 - According to reports a school bus driver has been arrested for allegedly molesting children in Laguna Hills.

According to the Orange County’s Sheriff’s Department the school bus driver identified as Norman Crawford age 37 was arrested and taken into custody on suspicion of lewd and lascivious acts against three children. The children were believed to have been molested inside of Crawford’s apartment in Laguna Hills, according to Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino. Crawford’s apartment is in the 2500 block of Stockport Street and he took the children there after earning their parents trust.

Amormino stated that two of the children were under the age of 14 and the third child was three years old. One of the children’s grandmothers went to authorities and Crawford was arrested and booked in the county jail on Wednesday, after the child told her. The children that were allegedly molested under the age of 14 are identified as a boy and girl.


Crawford who is being held at the Theo Lacy Jail on $100,000 bail has been a bus driver for 12 for the First Student Transportation Services and drove bus for several schools in Orange County, according to Amormino. Crawford is expected to appear in court on Friday.