MontCo bus aid charges with sexually abusing children

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A Montgomery County Public Schools bus aide was arrested and charged with sexually abusing two children over the last three years, authorities said

Franklin Dalton Smith, 61, of Hyattsville, was arrested after an 11-year-old female student with Down syndrome reported that she had been molested on the bus, police said. A second student witnessed the victim being inappropriately touched on the way to Glen Haven Elementary School in Silver Spring, police said.

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