18-year-old student charged in sexual assaults on Elbert County school bus

ELBERT COUNTY, Ga. - An 18-year-old student has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after deputies found they sexually assaulted two children on a school bus on separate occasions, authorities announced Thursday.

What we know:

Elbert County School District officials alerted sheriff's investigators on Tuesday to two incidents of possible sexual misconduct aboard a bus.

During the investigation, deputies said detectives determined that an adult student sexually assaulted two juvenile students on different occasions while riding along School Bus Route 45s.

Deputies arrested the 18-year-old student, who is charged with one count each of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, and child molestation, along with two counts of first-degree cruelty to children and two counts of false imprisonment.

Authorities confirmed that the families of both victims have been notified.

What we don't know:

Investigators have not released the name of the 18-year-old suspect or identified which school the students attended. 

Officials also did not disclose the ages or genders of the two victims and the specific dates the assaults occurred.