6-year-old left alone on bus for hours

SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Union City Police have charged two day care workers with reckless conduct after they allegedly left a 6-year-old boy alone on a bus for hours.

The day care owner said policies in place should have prevented this mistake, and that’s why she suspended the two workers, pending an investigation.

“When I realized my son wasn’t there, I thought the worst. All these kids are coming up missing, somebody has my child,” Lavetta Kitt said.

Kitt works late, so she’s been using the 24-hour day care service Step of Faith Christian Academy for nearly two years.

Workers are supposed to pick up her son from school and take him to the center until his mother picks him up.

Kitt showed up Tuesday night to get her son, and he wasn’t there.

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She said workers had no idea where he was for three hours, and they told her they never picked him up from school. Kitt filed a missing person report with police.

“It was a scary moment for me,” she said.

The owner found the boy on a bus by himself.

“When she yelled that he was on the van, I literally started crying and walking toward the van,” Kitt said.

Attorney Rudjard Hayes spoke to Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes about the incident.

“Everybody is concerned first  and foremost about the child, and then after that about what happened and why it happened,” Hayes said.

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