| (DI) More than 20 relatives, friends & fellow bus drivers showed up yesterday morning to support & defend a New Berlin man accused of molesting young girls who were passengers on his Midd-West School District bus route. The charges against 53-y/o Harry Jacob Miller Jr. came "totally out of the blue," said Lucy Miller, of Pittsburgh, the suspect's sister. Last month, state police filed charges alleging Miller had inappropriately touched 4 young girls over a 5-year period on his bus route, mostly on a section of Smalsh Barrick Road in Middlecreek Twp. He had been employed as a bus driver in the district for 15 years. Miller is facing four counts of indecent assault and four counts of corruption of minors for allegedly touching and grabbing the buttocks and chests of four girls, ages 8 to 11. |