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School bus driver arrested in sexual assault of girl, 5

A North Las Vegas school bus driver was arrested Tuesday on sexual assault and lewdness charges after a 5-year-old girl said she was abused in her home, police said.

Richard Dean Stephen, 63, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on seven counts of lewdness with a minor under the age of 14 and three counts of sexual assault.


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  • A report was filed last month with North Las Vegas police that Stephen, who works as a Clark County School District bus driver, abused a 5-year-old victim at her home this year.

    The girl is not a student with the school district.

    Stephen was arrested Tuesday night in his home.

    The relationship between Stephen and the victim wasn't immediately known.

     

    Contact reporter Maggie Lillis at mlillis@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0279.

     

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    savannah student on bus wrote on June 21, 2009 10:05 PM: yes my name is savannah i used to be a student on his bus for middle schoolers i do have a little info if needed. there were rumors floating araound about it n i was pretty sure of it. he was the best bus driver ever, he let us do practically watever we wanted. if you need any info just let me know my email is acejack11@gmail.com


    Seven Ft wrote on June 18, 2009 12:41 PM: This kind of thing is the closest I have ever been to supporting the death penalty.


    Disgusted wrote on June 18, 2009 06:10 AM: I guess it doesn't matter now if this man is guilty or innocent. His name and face have been published, so his life is over either way.

    IF he did the crime, I'm all for him receiving the toughest punishment possible, but what IF he didn't?

    What IF he didn't.....


    realist wrote on June 18, 2009 12:13 AM: as long as there is greedy people willing to live off others E-verify, borders,barb wires will do nothing but make people create new ways of beating the system. we need to go after the presidents,CEO's of companies they know what they are doing and turn a blind eye. we Americans live by the dollar and die for it. I said too much they might want to subpoena this log too. by the way 1500 thousand years or how ever many eons ago there was no last names, my beef is when my great-X-16-grampa came there was last names.
    open borders is just a word is not really open as in "free to travel with anything for anything" they screen people for drugs and stuff they do it in europe, it works well there because 1 police officer there equals to 5 here, ever driven in europe? we are a nation of paper trail and we are good at making it go nowhere.


    Vindictive wrote on June 17, 2009 11:35 PM: Joe C, the Clovis tribe originally came from France? Give me a break! You must have been educated in the Clark County school system. This is kind of personal. You see, I happen to be descended from those first inhabitants from those caves in France. Look it up. The original inhabitants of North (and South) America are widely believed to have crossed the Bering Strait into present-day Alaska during the last Ice Age when the Strait was frozen solid and water levels were lower than today, enabling the journey.


    Vindictive wrote on June 17, 2009 11:30 PM: What? North Las Vegas? And the perpetrator isn't black? How is that possible? Everybody knows only blacks commit crimes there, right?


    george wrote on June 17, 2009 10:58 PM: What is it with all the white men abusing children? Benny G you are so right and shouldn't apologize. Every time there is a person of color all the racist come out and talk smack about them as if white people are so perfect. Give it a break people there are good and bad in every race.


    Disgusted wrote on June 17, 2009 08:46 PM: This poor baby girl... :(

    Look up the survivor's of sexual abuse and cry.


    Question wrote on June 17, 2009 07:13 PM: And he doesn't hold elected office?


    tim wrote on June 17, 2009 04:47 PM: Another KIDDIEDIDDLER @ THE AGE OF 63


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