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HOPE MILLS, N.C. --
A Hope Mills man has been charged with exposing himself to children on a school bus Friday morning.
Cumberland County Sheriff's Detectives say 50-year-old Joseph Clayton Southerland allegedly drove his truck along side a school bus while exposing himself and masturbating.
Students on the bus, who range between the ages of five and 11, said they witnessed the crime on several separate occasions.
Southerland was identified after a witness wrote down the license plate number of the vehicle and reported the incident to police.
He is being held in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $60,000 secured bond. Southerland is expected to make his first court appearance on Nov. 9.
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