Tot with autism left on school bus 6 hours
October 18th, 2008
From the New York Daily News, New York Times, New York Post and elsewhere:
A bus driver and matron have been arrested in the case of a 3-year-old boy with autism who was left unattended on a Bronx school bus for a full school day. Jose Gabriel Lopez was discovered missing when his mother went to pick him up at school and was told that he had never arrived. Police found him dehydrated and hungry, still strapped in his carseat on the bus.
An editorial in the New York Daily News said the incident is…
… just the latest shameful example of drivers forgetting children entrusted to their care.
The Daily News investigations team has documented dozens of cases of children who fell asleep on school buses and woke up, alone, in dark parking lots. Or were dropped off far from home.
See also:
Guy who left kid on bus had booze raps — New York Daily News
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October 19th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
The school should have called to notify the child’s parents that the boy did not arrive to school!