Report: Charges focus on inappropiate touching
Six children accused a Las Vegas third-grade teacher of inappropriately touching them at some point during the 2016-17 school year, court documents show.
A criminal complaint and an arrest report for Luis Andres Busso, 38, a former Ira J. Earl Elementary School teacher, identifies six different girls at the school who said the teacher had touched them, five of whom were his students.
“(A student’s mother) described how her daughter told her she would move around so he wouldn’t touch her, but he would still continue,” according to the arrest report.
Another student told investigators, the report said, of a time she “ran to ▶ reviewjournal.com/brokentrust
her seat so he wouldn’t touch her.”
The report shows different children accused Busso of touching their backs, necks, buttocks and under their shirts. One student reported Busso asked her and another girl to sit on his lap.
Several girls said Busso touched them multiple times in class while other students were around, according to the arrest report.
Prosecutors charged Busso last week with five counts of lewdness with a child younger than 14, four counts of unlawful contact with a minor or mentally ill person and one count of attempted lewdness with a child younger than 14. He remained in Clark County Detention Center on Tuesday night.
School police first received a report of possible abuse by Busso on Jan. 25, when a girl reported the inappropriate touching to school police. She told police Busso began to touch her two days into the new school year.
She told administration Busso inappropriately touched her and another student, and he would tell her
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