5-year-old left alone for hours in a private school van
A 5-five-year old girl was left alone on a private school van for hours on Friday afternoon in Mattapan, The Boston Globereports.
A passerby heard the child, a student at Paige Academy in Roxbury, crying inside the van parked on Hollingsworth Street and called the police, according to the Globe.
Police and the child’s mother, told the Globe the girl was unharmed.
Doris Fields-Brown, 61, the driver and owner of the van, lived on the street where the van was parked. She told authorities she did not know the girl was still in vehicle when she finished her morning route.
A monitor also rides in the van, according to the Globe.
Fields-Brown contacted the child’s mother, April Sheffield-Boger, to apologize, according to the Globe.
“It seemed like an honest apology, but I also think it’s not acceptable,’’ Sheffield-Boger told the Globe, “I think somebody should have double-checked or at least done a head count.’’
Police are investigating the incident.
Read the full Globe report here.
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