A teenage girl allegedly sexually assaulted on a bus. In broad daylight. And no-one goes to her aid.

A teenage girl allegedly sexually assaulted on a bus.

Pinned against a window.

In broad daylight.

With school students looking on.

And no one did a thing to help.

It’s a highly distressing situation that occurred last Friday on a Gold Coast bus.

The police have now arrested a man over the alleged attack.

The victim, an 18-year-old woman, was travelling on a Surfside bus in the middle of the afternoon.

The Courier Mail reported that the young woman was pinned against a window and sexually assaulted.

“But no one, including the driver, came to her aid.”

Her alleged attacker’s image was released on CCTV yesterday.

The footage showed a man in his 50’s wearing a flannelette shirt pushing up against the young woman.

Her mother spoke to The Courier Mail before the man’s arrest.

“Bus drivers are not allowed to interfere, which is fair enough, but someone has to,” she said.

“They should have emergency buttons like they have on trains.”

“Or bus drivers should have some sort of procedure where they push a distress button and head straight to the nearest police station.”

“If this is happening in broad daylight, you can only imagine what’s happening late at night,” she said.

The police expressed concern to Seven News over the number of attacks on Gold Coast buses.

Earlier in the year, Mamamia reported on an elderly Indigenous man who was racially abused and attacked, and there have been three separate attacks on bus drivers over the past few months.

The man who attacked the 18-year-old woman now faces court.