{"id":185472,"date":"2026-03-10T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:55:08","slug":"st-lucie-school-bus-driver-accused-of-molesting-9-year-old-girl-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185472\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie School Bus Driver Accused Of Molesting 9-Year-Old Girl | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school bus driver is out of jail on bond after being accused of molesting a nine-year-old girl in St. Lucie County.  <\/p>\n<p>71-year-old Edwin Garcia was arrested on Friday on allegations that he asked the girl to lift up her dress and made other inappropriate comments, while also pinching the girl.  <\/p>\n<p>Garcia faces two charges of lewd or lascivious molestation involving a vivtim under 12.  A judge set bond at 500-thousand dollars, which he posted on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p>St. Lucie Public Schools says it has taken immediate action following the allegations, but it isn&#8217;t clear whether Garcia has been terminated.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school bus driver is out of jail on bond after being accused of molesting a nine-year-old girl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,84996,115,171,173,172,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-185472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-clear-channel-miami","9":"tag-coast-to-coast","10":"tag-glenn-beck","11":"tag-hannity","12":"tag-jimmy-cefalo","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-port-st-lucie","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","17":"tag-schnitt","18":"tag-south-florida","19":"tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","20":"tag-traffic","21":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}