What did Gogineni Rayudu do? Atlanta school bus driver released on bond days after arrest
Mia Tucker
Updated on February 20, 2026
Gogineni Rayudu (56), an Atlanta school transport driver, was captured for breaking into and going into the place of a 10-year-old young lady on Tuesday, February 21. He, nonetheless, was out of jail by Thursday in the wake of posting his $20,000 bond.
The driver had purportedly broken into the house searching for the young lady on Monday, February 20. As per charging reports, the “fixated” man strolled in through the front entryway of the family’s home wearing gloves and requested the little kid.
Rayudu supposedly encountered the young lady’s mom, Cassie Cea, and recognized himself as the young lady’s school transport driver and requested to see her. At the point when the mother asked him for a purpose for his unexpected break and entry, the 56-year-old supposedly run away from the area.
The Atlanta Diary Constitution revealed that the man was out of police care only several days after he was captured. This has left Cea upset, who petitioned for a controlling request against Gogineni Rayudu. She told the Atlanta Diary Constitution on Friday, February 24:
The mother of a Cobb Province School Region understudy has petitioned for a limiting request after a school transport driver went into her home searching for the 10-year-old. Further examination has uncovered the driver’s stalkerish propensities towards the young lady.
Cassie Cea, the mother, told Atlanta Diary Constitution that her local security official told her that Gogineni Rayudu, the driver being referred to, had visited the region a few times last month requesting her little girl.
Aside from visiting the area a few times long before the startling occurrence, Rayudu had supposedly irritated her little girl with “bizarre inquiries” in regards to her family and neighborhood. At the point when asked, the 10-year-old young lady recognized Gogineni Rayudu as a “extraordinary companion.”
As per Cassie Cea, Rayudu even changed her little girl’s seat on the transport so he could check out at her and converse with her. Cea told the Atlanta Diary Constitution:
“I don’t have the foggiest idea what this fixation is with her, yet all I can imagine is in the event that I wasn’t there, what might have occurred?”
Following Rayudu’s compromising section into her home, the concerned mother has been panicked to try and send her kid to school. She told the media source:
Cobb County, Georgia. A school bus driver Gogineni Rayudu, has been charged with first-degree burglary and loitering after stalking a 10-year old girl, Nataleah Cea, and barging into her home. When he entered the child’s home, he was confronted by her mother, Cassie Cea, who had…
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The little kid’s mom guaranteed that the school wouldn’t give her the name of the driver when she reached them. Cobb Province School Locale, nonetheless, told the Atlanta Constitution-Diary that they are helping out the police examination.
“We are collaborating completely with police as they carry out their examination. All subtleties can be affirmed through the capture warrant and Cobb PD who is finishing the examination. The transport driver isn’t serving Cobb understudies, forthcoming the result of the examination. We can’t remark further on this until the examination has been finished.”