LOS ANGELES — A San Luis Obispo County school district has agreed to pay a 9-year-old special needs student $10 million to settle a lawsuit after she was molested repeatedly by a school bus driver hired despite being convicted on a "peeping Tom" charge.
Bus driver David Lamb sexually abused the girl daily on his bus over six months in 2017 while working for Lucia Mar Unified School District, authorities alleged. A detective testified that the driver showed the child pornography, exposed himself and touched her. Lamb pled guilty to two counts of sexual abuse and was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2019. He made the plea deal to avoid a life sentence on several other sex crime charges.
While juries have returned higher verdicts, the settlement is the largest of its kind for an individual case, according to attorneys David Ring and Robert May, who represented the child.
