A Scott County bus driver has been acquitted of a charge stemming from an incident that happened on his bus last year.
Durbin Wallace was charged with harassment with physical contact.
He told LEX 18 that he cherished his job as a school bus driver and that he would never intentionally harm a child.
Wallace spent more than six years as a bus driver.
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On August 27th, police say he crossed the line when he grabbed a boy and forcefully moved him to another seat.
Surveillance video from that day shows Wallace asking the boy, who was a kindergartner at the time, to move forward and sit behind him. A few minutes later you see him grabbing the boy. When Wallace moved the child to another seat, you could hear the boy’s head hit the window.
Wallace says the student had a hard time following the rules on the bus, but that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone.
He says he actually cared too much.
“My intent was just to move him, just to move him and put him in a spot where he would be safer and the kids around him would be safer,” Wallace told LEX 18’s Brenna Gilroy. “That was it.”
Wallace says he is sorry for what happened and he wishes he would have handled the situation differently.
The trial only lasted a day and Wallace was acquitted in about 30 minutes.
He was originally charged with misdemeanor assault but the charged was dropped to harassment.
