Mom Demands Answers From School After Son Wanders Off
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (CBS4) - It is the phone call no parent ever wants to get.
"I was distraught," says Miami mother after she got a phone call that her seven year old son was missing from school.
The mother, who doesn't want to be identified, says her also unidentified seven year old wondered off from his school, Lorah Park Elementary and had been missing for almost an hour before she was notified.
She says her fiancé got the call that school officials and the police where looking for the boy.
"They told me they did see him eating breakfast and that a parent saw him walking away from the school," she said
He was finally found two miles away. He was walking along busy Northwest 36th street when a customer at Adelita's restaurant noticed the young boy alone and frightened and took him inside..
"He was sweating and looked dehydrated. We asked him do you know your mother's name, where you live, he looked pretty scared," says restaurant manager Kenny Alcantara.
Alcantara says after nowhere they looked into the boys' book bag and found his mother's information and called her.
This frantic mother and her son were immediately reunited. The customer who found him had gone by the time the boy's mother made it to the restaurant.
"I just want to thank him because anything could have happened," she said.
The child thought he missed the bus for a field trip to Chuck E Cheese's
The child says he heard his teacher announce it.
"My teacher said we have a field trip then she said I tricked you all and I didn't hear it," said the boy.
The boy's mother now wants to get to the bottom of it.
The Miami Dade County School District released this statement says " The school district is in communication with the parent and is reviewing the incident."
While school officials did apologize and according to the child's mother where very helpful, it is not enough.
She says she wants assurances that when her son is dropped off for school, he will be safe in their care.
