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Mother Outraged After Austistic Son Sent Home on Wrong Bus
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John Del Signore
Published Dec 9, 2009
Modified Dec 9, 2009
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A 5-year-old autistic boy was sent home on the wrong school bus on Monday, and his mom is on the warpath. Helen Morell says she was worried sick when her son Elijah didn't emerge from the bus outside her Highland Park home after school, and her panicked calls to the school and the bus company got her nowhere. "It was hell. I was so scared. I was so scared something had happened to him,"Morell tells NY1. "I blame the school. They should have known to put the baby on the right bus. They should have put him on the right bus." Elijah was ultimately delivered home two hours later, when a driver realized the mistake, but this isn't the first time school bus drivers have royally messed up—last year a Bronx driver left an 3-year-old autistic boy behind on his bus for six hours!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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