(Cedar Rapids, IA) — The sentence is ten years in prison for a former eastern Iowa school bus driver who pleaded guilty to kidnapping a child. Thomas A. Williams was a driver for the College Community School District in Cedar Rapids in January of 2020. He was initially charged with second-degree kidnapping and sexual exploitation by a school employee. Williams admitted to telling a ten-year-old girl to stay on the bus and pulling her onto his lap and trying to kiss her. He was fired after a police investigation. Williams was also ordered to pay a one-thousand-dollar fine and register as a sex offender.
