Driver In Woodmore Bus Wreck Charged With Statutory Rape In Nashville; Pinkston Files Motion To Revoke Bond

  • Friday, June 15, 2018
Johnthony Walker
Johnthony Walker

The man convicted in the Woodmore School bus wreck has been charged with statutory rape in Nashville.

Johnthony Walker was taken to the jail in Nashville on Thursday night.

On Friday, Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston filed a motion asking that Walker's bond be revoked.

Authorities said he has been living with a family in Nashville in recent months while out on bond - apparently because of threats he has received in Chattanooga.

It was charged that Walker, 26, had sex with a 14-year-old girl in the family.

Walker has been on bond since last October in the incident in which six children were killed and a number of other children injured in the wreck on Talley Road in Brainerd.

He was sentenced to four years in prison after a trial, but is appealing.

Nashville officers said they responded to a disturbance at the residence where Walker has been living. They said the parents called police after learning that their young daughter had been having sex with Walker over the past several months.

Police said Walker admitted that the allegation was true. He said it happened on five occasions.

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