A former Milton man who was employed as a South Burlington school bus driver until being charged in 2021 with sexually assaulting two boys now stands accused of assaulting a third young male while he was awaiting trial on the earlier charges.
Jerry Normandin, 65, is facing additional charges of aggravated sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigations.
Normandin is currently serving a 5- to 15-year sentence at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield after he pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child in August 2023. A more serious charge of sexual assault was dropped.
The new charges stem from a case that was first reported to the Milton Police Department and referred to CUSI last month. The victim was a juvenile when the alleged offenses began during the two-year span while Normandin awaited trial, the press release stated.
Normandin was initially arrested in July 2021 after Milton police referred a case for investigation to the special unit. Normandin was then charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a young male at Normandin’s home in Milton, and sexually abusing a developmentally disabled 15-year-old male while Normandin was employed as a bus driver in South Burlington. He was placed on leave by the school district following his arrest.
At his initial court appearance, Normandin was released to await trial on conditions that included he not have contact with children under 18 years old.
“It is worth noting that the abuse in this case continued after Normandin was released back into the community on conditions by a judge” following his 2021 arrest, the special investigations unit wrote in its release. “The new victim in this current case was sexually abused throughout the duration of that two-year court process, up until Normandin was sentenced to incarceration in August of 2023.”
Investigators noted that Normandin is currently scheduled to be released in less than two years on the previous charges, after serving the minimum three years of the 5- to 15-year term. He faced the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the sexual assault charges he was initially charged with.
Normandin has been ordered to appear in court on Sept. 19 on the new charges.
