Boston man hired to transport child to school charged with indecent assaults
BOSTON, June 12, 2026 – A Boston man was arraigned today in Dorchester BMC on multiple charges for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old child he was hired to drive to and from school, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced.
FAUSTO ABREU, 60, of Boston was charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person under 14. Judge Nicholas Brandt set bail at $5,000 with GPS monitoring. Abreu is ordered to not drive any children and to stay away and have no contact with the victim and all minor children. Abreu is due back in court on July 20 for a pre-trial hearing.
Hayden urged parents who may have hired Abreu to contact authorities if they have any suspicions that their children may have been assaulted.
“We are concerned that this may not be an isolated incident and we want to assure parents that any information they provide will be thoroughly and sensitively investigated,” Hayden said.
On June 1, Boston police took a report from the victim’s mother who received a call from the child’s school. The child, 12, disclosed to her teachers that her bus driver had been inappropriately touching her.
The mother told police that she met Abreu through a friend’s referral on Facebook after she posted that she was looking for a driver to bring her daughter back and forth to school. The victim’s mother is not aware of Abreu being employed by a company. Abreu has been transporting the victim since September 2025.
The victim disclosed through a forensic interview multiple incidents where Abreu touched her thigh, rubbed his hand back and forth, and squeezed her, while talking to her on the way to or from school. The victim reported that at one point, Abreu put his hand close to her genitals before she removed his hand away. She said that after removing Abreu’s hand, he stopped touching her but repeated the same behavior later that day.
The victim also reported that on three separate occasions, Abreu would have sexualized phone conversations in the car with a woman that the victim believed to be his wife or girlfriend.
On May 29, while the victim was reporting these incidents to her teachers, Abreu arrived at school to pick her up. The school staff informed Abreu he could not drive her home and the victim’s mother later contacted police.
The victim’s mother was informed by school staff that Abreu arrived at the school on June 1 and confronted staff members about the report made against him.
While the victims and witnesses of any crime should call 911 in an emergency, there are additional resources available to report suspected crimes against children and for survivors of abuse to receive help. In Suffolk County, survivors of child abuse and exploitation and their non-offending caretakers can receive comprehensive services at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County. The CAC can be reached at 617-779-2146. Survivors may also contact the Child Protection Unit at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office at 617-619-4300. Anyone who believes that a child in Massachusetts may be the victim of abuse should call the DCF Child at Risk Hotline at 1-800-792-5200.
All charged individuals are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office serves the communities of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop. Our office handles more than 20,000 cases a year. Nearly 160 assistant district attorneys practice in nine district and municipal courts, Suffolk Superior Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Boston and Chelsea Juvenile Courts and the Supreme Judicial Court. Our office employs some 300 people and offers a wide range of services and programs for anyone encountering the criminal justice system. We are committed to educating the public about our mission and services while focusing on crime prevention to keep the residents, workers and visitors of Suffolk County safe.
James Borghesani, Chief of Communications