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Report: Bus driver accused of lewd act on kindergartner in Jacksonville school parking lot

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A Jacksonville elementary school bus driver was arrested June 24, for lewd and lascivious conduct after a warrant was issued following a May report of alleged child molestation.

On May 17, a police detective with the Duval County School Police Department received a report of a bus driver allegedly inappropriately touching and tickling a kindergartner while in a parked school bus at Pickett Elementary School.

School bus video captured the bus driver, Daniel Allen Tittle, 57, "acting inappropriately with the a child," according to the arrest warrant.

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In the beginning of the same video, the detective said Tittle asked the female child to come to the front of the bus and told her she would be in trouble for sitting in the back, but she did not.

A witness told the detective that the girl often sat with her brother because her brother "did not like the way the bus driver interacted with her," according to the arrest warrant.

After the bus pulled into the school's parking lot, and before the bus unloaded, Tittle was seen walking down the aisle toward the back of the bus, directly toward the girl.

According to the report, Tittle allegedly began to tickle the child on her chest, sides and back and is seen looking toward the front of the bus, as if he were checking to see if no one other than children were watching.

The bus driver was then seen thrusting his pelvic area against the girl, "consistent with simulating a sexual act," and then began to tickle her more before walking back to the front of the bus.

Tittle allegedly began to tickle another student in the front seat of the bus. The incident was not captured on school bus video due to the position the camera was pointed, the affidavit stated.

The students were interviewed by the Jacksonville Child Protection team and gave no other history of Tittle performing criminal acts.

The arrest warrant was issued June 22. Tittle was arrested on June 24 for lewd and lascivious conduct of a victim less than 16.

Tittle can not have any contact with minors and isn't allowed 2,500 feet of any school, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrest report.