Michael Jeffery Bowersock, an Okaloosa County school bus driver accused of spanking a 7-year-old girl’s bare buttocks, was sitting in jail for 100 days, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.
His lawyer managed to spring him last Tuesday — on $100,000 bond.
The girl who Bowersock allegedly spanked told her mother that on more than one occasion he stopped his school bus, pulled down her pants and spanked her with his bare hand, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.
Prosecutor Elissa Saavedra wanted to keep Bowersock in the "Big House," contending that he had acted from “a position of authority” to abuse children and deserved no bail.
Saavedra also said there are “several other child victims” of lewd and lascivious acts that allegedly were committed by Bowersock.
But she admits there is a problem: The state could present no testimony about those other crimes because “all of the witnesses are under 10.”
Bowersock has been suspended from the school district without pay.
Photo: Michael Jeffery Bowersock / Northwest Florida Daily News
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