RICHTON PARK, Ill. (WLS) – A three-year-old is safe and warm with her family after being left on a school bus in this snowy depot cold, alone, and scared.
“She was just saying, ‘Mommy, I was left on the bus. I was left on the bus,’” Talia Anderson said.
Anderson said it happened after a bus picked up her daughter Aziyah around midday to go to preschool at Richton Square Elementary in Richton Park, Illinois. Hours later, the school called Anderson asking why Aziyah wasn’t there.
“I was just, was she OK? Was she alive at this point? I just needed to know,” she said.
Later, the superintendent called back saying Aziyah, who had apparently fallen asleep on the way to preschool, was found on her bus at that depo in Country Club Hills.
“I’m frustrated because how can you really leave a three-year-old on the bus?” Anderson said. “And I’m giving you to her in your care?”
Matteson School District 162 said Aziyah was not delivered to the school and instead was unknowingly transported back to the bus depot. The bus driver involved in this matter will no longer provide services for District 162 because safety policies and procedures were not followed.
“She’s just been really thirsty ever since the situation, so I’ve just been giving her water, giving her apple juice, and trying to keep her hydrated,” Anderson said.
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