Cobb school bus driver arrested after mom says he barged into home looking for her young daughter

[Sugar Cookie]

A Cobb County school bus driver was arrested Wednesday afternoon after police said he walked into a family’s home looking for their daughter.

Cassioppia Cea’s daughter attends Powers Ferry Elementary School. Cea said a new bus driver on the route scared her when he walked into her house earlier this week.

Police have identified the driver as Gogineni Rayudu. Cea said he walked into their home through their unlocked door and closed it behind him. He was wearing gloves at the time.

Cea said she pointed out that kids were out of school this week. Rayudu told her he was looking for her and her daughter.

“I just started grilling him with questions, and as soon as I did, he took off,” Cea said.

Cea said Rayudu, who has only been on the route for about two months, has asked her daughter inappropriate questions in the past and told her he was her friend if she needed someone to confide in.

“Everything in my gut was telling me something was seriously wrong,” Cea said. “I I hadn’t been there, what would have happened?”

Neighbors said they’ve seen Rayudu roaming around the neighborhood, asking for Cea’s daughter and another little girl.

Cea and her boyfriend filed a police report and were at Cea’s home as detectives searched for clues Wednesday afternoon.

Police asked Newell to hold off on her report because they were moments away from arresting Rayudu. They located him at another location and arrested him.

Rayudu has been charged with burglary and loitering.

Cobb school bus driver arrested after mom says he barged into home looking for her young daughter

The driver was wearing gloves when he walked into the family's home unannounced.

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[Sejanus]

Who the hell would look at that and think what a great hire for a bus driver with a bunch of kids he would be? I'd be asking some serious questions about the bus company hiring practices.

 

[thuumpr]

Had some free time and thought he'd spend it with his bestest friend.

 

[cubby]

I remember, way back in the stone age, 1975 or so, somebody's older brother was hired as a bus driver on my route. The first thing he did was install an 8 track and blast rock music as soon as he got off school property. His name was Randy and it was the first time I had heard CCR, and I love him for that. Other than that as far as I can remember he played it by the book. He never had a problem with trouble makers on his bus.

 

[HEREIBE22]

I remember smoking in the back of a short bus on our bus driver's last day lmao....

Something tells me there is a whole lot more to this story tho!

 

[Metalfan]

Discount bin bus drivers I see!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Gogineni Rayudu, 56, was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor loitering but was already back on the streets on Thursday after posting a $20,000 bond, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The turnstile justice left the young girl’s distraught mom, Cassie Cea, “in shock.” To protect her family she has since obtained a restraining order against Rayudu, the report said.

“I’m just really freaked out,” Cea told the newspaper on Friday. “He was definitely up to something bad — I just don’t know how bad it was.”

Cea said Rayudu — who was the pre-teen’s school bus driver — had been pestering the child with “weird questions” about their family and had visited her neighborhood several times in the weeks before the frightening break in.

The Cobb County School District driver’s apparent “obsession” allegedly grew to the point where he walked into the front door of the family’s home wearing gloves Tuesday, closed the door behind him, and asked for Cea, according to charging documents.

He identified himself as the girl’s bus driver and told Cea that he was there to see her. Schools were closed on Monday for Presidents Day.

When Cea asked what he was doing in her house, Rayudu fled. Cea’s daughter was at camp at the time and not at home.

Cea told the paper that she later spoke with her neighborhood security officer, who told her that Rayudu had visited the area several times last month asking for her daughter.

When she asked her daughter about the bus driver, she described him as her “special friend,” and that Rayudu had changed her bus seat so he could see and talk to her.

Cea said he had been her daughter’s bus driver for about two months.

“I don’t know what this obsession is with her, but all I can think of is if I hadn’t been there, what would have happened?” Cea told The Journal-Constitution.

When she called the Cobb County School District after the incident, she said that the school refused to giver her the bus driver’s name.

“My kid’s never getting on a bus again,” Cea told the paper. “I don’t even know if I want her in public school anymore, because are we taking this serious? Or are we just like, ‘Oh, he’s a weirdo’?”

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“I don’t know what this obsession is with her, but all I can think of is if I hadn’t been there, what would have happened?” Cea told The Journal-Constitution.

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