Child sent home to empty apartment
LAKELAND (AP) – A central Florida teacher is under investigation after a 5-year-old girl was mistakenly placed on a school bus that drove her to an empty home at an apartment complex.
Officials say 5-year-old Kaylee Mitchell wandered her family’s apartment complex in Lakeland for an hour knocking on doors in search of her mother. She was supposed to be in a YMCA after-school program.
Her kindergarten teacher mistakenly placed her on the bus again earlier this month.