Lethbridge police have charged a 65-year-old transit driver with a disturbing crime.

Kenneth Patrick Ball is accused of sexually assaulting a disabled woman on multiple occasions over a 14-month period.

Police began investigating after the 46-year-old victim, who is physically and mentally disabled, went to the police station with her mother.

The accused was working as an Access-A-Ride driver and police allege he inappropriately touched the victim on five occasions while she rode the bus.

Ball is charged with five counts of sexual assault and five counts of sexual exploitation of a person with a disability.

Ball was released on bail on the condition that he abstains from communicating directly or indirectly with any person with a physical or mental disability.

He is scheduled to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court on March 3rd.