Donald Bordelon, a Woodlawn High School bus driver, was arrested Friday for allegedly performing sexual acts with a mentally disabled 18-year-old student.
The 61-year-old from 9604 Deer Run Ave., Zachary, was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison on counts of aggravated rape.
Casey Rayborn Hicks, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office public information director, said the victim told her mother and a school administrator that she had oral sex with Bordelon, who drives her school bus.
Hicks said the school and the victim’s mother confirmed the victim has an IQ of 67 and limited functionality. For people with an IQ lower than 70, Louisiana law defines aggravated rape as any sexual act in which the victim cannot resist because he or she suffers “mental infirmity.”
Hicks said an EBRSO detective questioned the victim and determined she was incapable of understanding the nature of her actions with Bordelon, though she could describe what took place.
The victim explained Bordelon picked her up early for school and stood above her on the bus while she sat in the first seat, where he asked her to perform sexual acts on him. Hicks said the victim stated this occurred six times on the school bus.
Bordelon also gave the victim candy and a cell phone, to which he confessed, according to Hicks.
But Hicks said Bordelon denied he persuaded the victim to perform sexual acts six times. Bordelon said he picked the victim up from school early approximately 10 times but only engaged in oral sex with her once, not on his bus but at BREC’s Ben Burge Park on Gardere Drive.
If convicted, the offender faces life imprisonment at hard labor without parole, probation or suspension of sentence, according to Louisiana law.
 
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