After a three-hour mediation earlier this month, a civil lawsuit against a former school bus driver who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in 2016 has been settled.
It’s unclear how much Durham School Services will pay for Alexander Rodriguez‘s conduct in March 2015, but a recent filing in Hamilton County Circuit Court says attorneys worked out an agreement during a mediation on Dec. 12.
Durham, the private company that provides much of the county’s school transportation, employed Rodriguez until Chattanooga officers charged him with driving a 15-year-old girl to a motel and raping her on March 4, 2015.
Alexander RodriguezRodriguez, 36, pleaded guilty to aggravated statutory rape, a Class D felony, in July 2016 and received four years probation. Probation letters said he began driving for a different private transportation company in February 2017.
Durham has been litigating the claim since the minor’s family accused the company of improperly hiring Rodriguez in a $10 million March 2016 lawsuit.