POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A Polk County school bus driver was arrested Thursday by deputies on multiple counts of sexual battery of special needs children riding his bus.



Deputies said a student at Horizons Elementary School in Davenport told his school counselor that he saw Carlos Ojeda, 72, place his hands down a female student's pants on several occasions.



Deputies said both victims were under 12 years old and all the students on Ojeda's bus are special needs.



"There are no words to describe the depravity displayed by this suspect. He drives a school bus where he has access to these precious children, he lures them with candy and physically assaults them in such a way that nobody will see it, or report it," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.



Surveillance video from the bus shows Ojeda standing in the stairwell of the bus while it's parked at the school, motioning to the victim to approach him while showing a piece of candy, deputies said.



Officials said Ojeda pulls the victim toward him, sexually batters her in the bus stairwell, out of sight from other children, then gives her the candy and she goes back to her seat.

