Berea man charged with hundreds of sex-abuse crimes

A Madison County school bus driver has been charged with 225 counts of first-degree sexual abuse and 125 counts of solicitation to commit sexual abuse involving the same girl over a period of years, according to court records.

Alvin Henry Bradley, 35, of Berea was arrested Wednesday after a monthlong investigation by the Madison County Sheriff’s Office. He was charged with 75 counts of sexual abuse with a minor younger than 12 and 150 counts of sexual abuse with a minor older than 12.

Bradley is also charged with 75 counts of solicitation to commit sexual abuse with a minor younger than12 and 50 counts of solicitation to commit sexual abuse with a minor older than 12.

The victim told investigators that Bradley sexually abused her once a week from 2007 to 2009, when she was 7 through 9 years old. During that time, the victim said, Bradley asked her to touch herself in the vaginal area.

The abuse stopped for five years after the victim told her mother, but it began again in 2014 for seven months when the victim was 14, the complaint says.

During that period, Bradley allegedly asked the victim “to touch herself in the breast and vaginal area,” the complaint says.

Bradley was hired in August 2014 and drove a middle school and high school bus route in southern Madison County. He has expressed his intention to resign as a bus driver, a school district spokeswoman said.

Bradley was being held in the Madison County jail in Richmond. He was scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning in Madison District Court.

This story was originally published February 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM with the headline "Berea man charged with hundreds of sex-abuse crimes."