FORMER CHATTANOOGA BUS DRIVER PLEADS GUILTY TO AGGRAVATED STATUTORY RAPE
Johnthony Walker, the driver convicted in the deadly Woodmore Elementary school bus crash in Chattanooga back in 2016, entered a plea of guilty today in Nashville to eight counts of statutory rape and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor.
Walker must now register as a sex offender.
The plea deal states he will be sentenced to six years and one month in prison, which will run consecutive to his conviction in Hamilton County.
Last year, a Tennessee Appeals Court upheld Walker’s conviction in the November 2016 Chattanooga crash, which claimed the lives of six children. He was sentenced to four years.