Parents' shock and disgust as male bus driver wears schoolgirl costume to run 'Lolita' route for young kids

Daily Mail​

16 hours ago

A male bus driver dressed up in a schoolgirl costume to transport young children to their Catholic elementary school on what he dubbed the 'Lolita Line'.
The shocking incident was filmed at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School in Vaughan, Ontario, roughly 30 miles north of Toronto, on June 8.
The driver was sporting a short pink skirt, blouse, pink shoes and a coordinating headband when a group of concerned parents confronted him outside of the bus.
'I do this everyday, and I don't think there is an issue,' the driver is heard saying at the start of the video, which was seemingly recorded mid-conversation.
A disgusted parent replied: 'You picked up the kids dressed like that?'
But the driver, apparently unbothered by the confrontation, answers 'yep, and I don't think there's any problem' as he re-boards the bus and starts the engine.
'Why do you call your bus The Lolita Line? Why is it called The Lolita Line?' another parent yells out, asking about a sign hung in a window - but the driver ignores them.
The name likely refers to Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita, which was published in 1995 and tells the story of a literally professor who becomes obsessed with and sexually abuses his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
The novel was said to be a favorite of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who even named his private jet the Lolita Express in nod to the book.
The driver will no longer be providing services to the school, the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB) confirmed to the Daily Mail.
District staff 'immediately' confronted the third-party company that employs the driver after the incident.
'The company acted quickly to address this situation with its employee and the driver will no longer provide busing to and from the school,' YCDSB spokesman Mark Brosens said in a statement Wednesday.
'The company assured the YCDSB that this will not be an issue going forward at any YCDSB schools.'
All bus drivers in Ontario are required to pass a Vulnerable Sector Screening with local police, Brosens added.
A Vulnerable Sector Screening, similar to an American background check, is a police information screening that checks if an individual has a criminal record or a record suspension for sexual offences.
Ontario bus drivers are also required to receive 'extensive training before transporting students', the spokesperson explained.
Brosens concluded: 'The YCDSB followed all of its child protection procedures after this incident.'
The district seems to have taken a strong response to the incident, but a receptionist at the school reportedly dismissed the parents' concerns as 'ignorance'.
Rebel News reporter David Menzies published an excerpt from a phone call he had with the St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Elementary School staffer.
The journalist was trying to get in contact with school principal Francesco Carriero but he was apparently unavailable at the time.
'Why don't the parents just call the bus company instead of just bugging the school all the time?' the receptionist said to Menzies, the audio recording revealed.
'Honestly it's just an education center, we're just trying to teach kids. It's so frustrating. The parents can't be educated themselves and call the people direct that hire the bus drivers.'
The reporter pressed further, but the receptionist doubled down on her claims, saying the situation is 'done with' now that the 'bus driver got transferred to another route'.
'The parents won. They should be happy,' she snapped, adding: 'Honestly, it doesn't matter. The guy was harmless. He drove his bus, dropped off the students and went on his merry way. I think everybody's just being a little ignorant about it.'
The receptionist then told Menzies she would notify Carriero of his call, but claimed the principal has 'bigger things to deal with' than this incident and is 'trying to run a school'.
'We're trying run a school. We're just trying to keep the kids safe - and they are safe. Nobody has been injured. Nobody's been hurt,' she said.
Daily Mail asked Brosens about the phone conversation and he said: 'All the facts in our media statement happened before the phone conversation you referenced.
'The bus driver is not an employee of the YCDSB. And the YCDSB has worked with the bus company to ensure this individual will no longer bus students to YCDSB schools.'
Rebel News also visited the Landmark Bus Lines facility in Vaughan to ask the company, which reportedly employed the driver, about the incident.
A staff member refused to answer questions and ordered the reporter to leave the premises, video of the interaction shows.
The Daily Mail has approached the bus company for comment, but did not receive a response.