School bus driver Jacob Thomson said he’s not a hero for intervening when he saw a female student walking and acting uncomfortable as a man followed her.
“That instinct of being a dad, I guess, kicked in,” Thomson said Friday about why he drove the bus around the block to check on the student.
The Abilene Independent School District bus driver was starting his middle school route at about 7:30 a.m. Monday when he saw the older man following a teenager girl near the intersection of Butternut and South 16th streets.
“I don’t know what he said to her, but he got her attention in some way. And, it startled her at first. That’s what kind of caught my eye to keep looking to make sure that everything was OK,” Thomson said.
He normally drops off a student at Bowie Elementary at that time of day, but only one other student for his middle school route was on his bus.
“I was very fortunate that God put me in the situation I was in because I just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” Thomson said. “Thirty seconds or one minute to unload a student at the school could have made all the difference in the world. I might not have been there.”
As Thomson’s bus No. 112 approached the girl, the suspect turned around and walked away.
Thomson told the girl, who is a student at a different middle school not on his route, that she could sit in his bus and wait until her regular bus arrived.
“She was obviously distraught,” Thomson said.
The student said the man tried to kidnap her and told her that he loved her and tried to offer a vape cigarette, Thomson said.
“I guess it’s something to entice your child to come over to,” he said.
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