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Bus driver charged with sex assault

Posted on May 05, 2011

DICKINSON - A Deer Park man who worked as a school bus driver for the Dickinson Independent School District was arrested Tuesday on charges he sexually assaulted an underage female family member.

The unidentified girl he is accused of assaulting is not a Dickinson student, officials said.

David Ray Tyler, 54, is charged with continued sexual abuse of a child, Deer Park police said.

Police in Deer Park were tipped to the alleged assault Monday after the girl had been taken to Texas Children's Hospital.

Police did not confirm the extent of the girl's injuries.

On Tuesday, Deer Park and Dickinson police arrested Tyler at the Dickinson school district transportation center in the 3300 block of Owens Drive.

Tyler, who worked for the district since September 2009, was then fired from his job as a bus driver, school district spokeswoman Tammy Dowdy said.

Tyler drove bus route No. 2, Dowdy confirmed.

"The district has no indication that anything occurred in Dickinson or was related to his employment with the school district," she said.

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