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Summer camp student left at wrong bus stop, mother says

A local mother is frustrated and afraid, when she says her daughter's bus driver dropped her off in the wrong spot, twice.

The 7-year-old was dropped off in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood, but her house is a half-mile away in Brighton Heights.

"No one can tell me where my daughter was," said Kristina Cannon. "I didn't even know where to begin to look."

She told Channel 11 she spent 45 minutes Tuesday driving around, looking for her 7-year-old daughter.

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She was on her way home from a summer program with Pittsburgh Public Schools.

"I get on the bus, my daughter's not there," Cannon said. "We're frantic, we don't know where she is. The school is telling us she's on this bus."

Cannon said the school called Monday and changed her daughter's route home.

But then her daughter wasn't there.

The 7-year-old found her way home that day, but not on Tuesday.

"We checked city steps, side streets, her old school, we checked her friend's house, we checked everywhere," Cannon said. "I could not find my baby."

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They started driving toward the school and found her a half mile from home.

"She's standing on a corner, screaming at the top of her lungs, crying."

The school district admits the student was dropped off at the wrong bus stop on Monday.

And Tuesday, they say, "Although the bus was running behind schedule, the student was dropped off at the bus stop requested by her mother."

Cannon says that's not true because family were waiting at both bus stops.

"Anyone could've taken her, what if she got hit by a car, what if someone opens fire, because that happens a lot up here. What if she started walking and she got lost. and couldn't find her way back and I couldn't find her. So many things," Cannon said. "I never want to experience that again."

Channel 11 contacted the bus company for comment and did not hear back.

 

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