Washington County school bus driver charged with 20 felonies for CSAM, district says no students were involved

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — The Washington County School District bus driver

accused of downloading child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been charged, and new information is available from charging documents. The district says that no children in the community were involved in the alleged crime.

Daniel Sterling Workman, 44, from St. George, has been charged with 20 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.

According to documents, an officer from the St. George Police Department Investigation Division’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) team was forwarded a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip stated that an account had uploaded more than 100 files of suspected child sexual abuse material.

Alongside the tip, police were forwarded IP addresses and a phone number associated with the account. Using this information, detectives began filing search warrants and court orders to find the owner of the account. After the warrants were returned, it was allegedly found that Daniel Workman was associated with both the IP addresses and the phone number.

Sept. 3, 2025, the ICAC Task Force executed a residential search warrant on Workman’s home. Police say that they recovered multiple electronic devices that will undergo analysis to find any additional evidence.

In the arrest statement, police noted that Workman is employed at the Washington County School District, and a press release from St. George Police states that he worked as a school bus driver.

Steven Dunhamn, Washington County School District’s Director of Communications, told ABC4 that police informed them no children in the community were involved in the arrest and investigation.

“They let us know that it dealt with child pornography; they assured us that it did not deal with any of the children in our community,” Dunham stated. “That being said, we did not know what the exact charges would be, and so we tried to craft our message so that we could notify our parents quickly and give them all the information that we had available to us.”

Documents say that in his job, he was often in areas with children who were in the same age range as those depicted in CSAM found on his account.

“Parents were asking why we didn’t specify which bus route. For the first seven months of his employment, this bus driver was a substitute bus driver and likely drove a bus throughout all of Washington County,” Dunham said. “When we found that information out, we felt it necessary to inform all of our parents out of full transparency.”

Dunham explained that “every single employee” who works for the Washington County School District has to pass a background check that checks for criminal history. Workman passed the background check before being hired, according to Dunham.

“These [incidents] are horrific, yet they’re very rare, but they are horrific when they happen. And we do our very best to ensure your children are in a safe place. That’s the number one building block for an education,” Dunham stated.

Workman also allegedly had access to a young child in his personal life who is in that age range. Due to his risk to children, Workman was arrested and booked into the Washington County Jail, where he is currently being held without bail.

“In any situation, it’s good for parents to have a good talking relationship with their children, so they know the adults they’re interacting with and know if anything becomes suspicious to them, they can notify us and we can immediately take action,” Dunham concluded.