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Donquarious Ridley was sentenced to two years in prison for boarding a Greenwood school bus and battering children.
FOX59 and the Daily Journal reported that Donquarious Ridley, 28, of Indianapolis was sentenced Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, to two years in prison and two years of probation. He pleaded guilty to battery on a person less than 14 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The charges come from Oct. 31, 2025, when he and Raven Barner boarded a Greenwood school bus near Dover Drive and Scarborough Lane. The children are not named here.
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A sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the counts he admitted. Johnson Circuit Court Judge Andrew Roesener said the prison term fit a crime on a bus full of children, the Johnson County Prosecutor's Office said. Barner's earlier sentence is her own case. The children on that bus are not named.
FOX59, citing the Johnson County Prosecutor's Office, reported that Ridley was sentenced to two years in prison followed by two years of probation after pleading guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and battery on a person less than 14. He must complete anger management, a mental-health evaluation, and substance-use treatment. The Daily Journal reported he also pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and possession of a controlled substance, and received a concurrent term that includes 30 days in jail on the drug counts, with probation to follow.
The Daily Journal reported the bus stop was inside Westminster Apartments at Dover Drive and Scarborough Lane on the morning of Oct. 31, 2025. Greenwood officers were called after Ridley and Barner boarded without permission. Court documents say they accused a child of bullying their child. FOX59 reported that security video showed Barner strike two children after telling a boy she would beat him, and that Ridley threw a child to the ground so his own child could start hitting, struck two children himself, and directed his child to hit another. Police stopped them a short time later. The children are not named. The Indianapolis Star reported that Barner, 26, pleaded guilty earlier to two counts of battery on a person younger than 14 and resisting law enforcement, and on May 21 was sentenced to one year in prison and one year of probation.
Ridley's plea is a conviction on the counts he admitted. Barner's sentence does not decide his. The children are not named in this account. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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