UPDATE: In a statement sent to Renda Media, the mother of the 5-year-old child left on the bus made the following clarification …
“First my son was put on the bus around 8 am. Next I went about my day as I believed my child was at school. However I got home at 3:30 and I received an email from my son’s teacher at 4 pm. I figured she probably mis wrote her email and that she was absent not my son. When he got home of the bus all of his papers were untouched in his folder and I had no notes about his day (from his aide). I contacted the school and only a custodian answered. I left voicemails for the superintendent. I contacted my friend for other phone numbers to contact. At 5:30 I received a call from his teacher which set into motion the investigation because she did not have my son is class.
“He was found to have been left on the bus all day. The driver did not check the bus. The driver was fired and turned in a resignation as well.
“I am not the horrible mother this is creating me out to be. I never received an automatic text message or phone call from the school that my son was absent. I was under the assumption he was at school. This was a traumatic ordeal for my son. He does not have the full capability to understand what happened or alert someone that he had fallen asleep and was still on the bus.”
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State police say that a 69-year-old Marion Center man was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after an incident where the child was left on the school bus for the day on Monday.
Police say that the mother of an un-named five year old boy from Northern Cambria put him on the school bus headed for Purchase Line Elementary School. After it was discovered that the boy never made it to his class but was dropped off at home at 4:15 pm, the mother contacted both the Purchase Line School District and Tri-County Transportation, and discovered that the boy never got off the bus when it arrived at school and stayed on the bus all day.
The bus driver, the un-named Marion Center man, was questioned in connection with the investigation. The driver quit Tri-County Transportation the following day. He is being charged through District Judge Christopher Welch’s office.
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