P.E.I. bus driver pleads guilty to charge involving sexting

A bus driver from Queens County P.E.I.pleaded guilty Monday toone count of invitation to sexual touching.

Steven William MacLeod, 31,of Rose Valley a community west of Charlottetown,used to drive a school busuntil his suspension last May.

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According to an agreed statement of facts read into the recordMonday in a Charlottetown courtroom,MacLeod used his cell phone to exchange more than 200 text messages with the girl, over a period of four hours.

During those exchanges, he invited the girl to meet up to have sex, andoffered her liquor and marijuana. The Crown prosecutor said MacLeod's position as a bus driver placed him in a position of trust.

MacLeod faces a minimum sentence of 90 days in jail, and is slated to return to provincial court March 15for sentencing.

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