ATLANTA — A mother is demanding answers after she said son’s school bus driver made a critical mistake when she dropped him off and he disappeared for hours.
The child was found safe and sound but his mother told Channel 2’s Tom Regan that she is very upset with the driver and the school.
“I said, ‘Nobody can find Kelvin? Where is Kelvin?’” Latoya Williams said.
Her son Kelvin, 7, is back home but for two anxious hours Wednesday he was missing.
The child climbed onto a bus at Kipp Ways, a charter school in northwest Atlanta.
But when his grandmother showed up at the usual time at the corner store where he's dropped, there was no bus, and no Kelvin.
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“They were having some transportation problems, so they combined routes. No. 1, I wasn't informed," Williams said.
The grandmother went to the school looking for the child. That's when Williams said the driver showed up late, dropped the child off, with no one there to meet him and drove off.
“(She) asked him, ‘Is this your stop?’ and left him there," Williams told Regan.
“Was this scary?” Regan asked Kelvin.
“A little bit,” the boy replied.
Kelvin wandered off. When his mother got the call he was missing, she told Regan she went into a panic.
“Everyone was looking for him, printed out pictures, contacted authorities. Nobody knew where he was,” Williams said.
The principal of the school told Regan they are conducting a full investigation and working to ensure all drivers are fully trained on their policies about dropping children off.
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