Officials investigate why boy left on bus

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., May 25 (UPI) -- A Broward County, Fla., school bus driver and his assistant have been reassigned as investigators try to find out why a child was left on a bus for four hours.

The two, who were not identified, were ordered to report to a bus facility away from children, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. While the school investigation goes on, Pembroke Pines police are looking at filing possible criminal charges, officials said.

The child, 6, who also was not identified, is autistic and attends special-needs kindergarten classes at Dania Beach Elementary. He was being kept at home for the time being, the report said.

After other children left, the child spent about four hours alone on the bus, which serves special-needs students, the newspaper said, until found about 1 p.m. by the driver, who was beginning a second shift.

The boy's godmother, Meggan Reid-Robinson, said the child is "traumatized. All he has said was, 'Bad bus, bad bus.' There is no way you can send him back to school on the same bus."

She added: "We still want to know how two adults missed something like this. It doesn't make any sense."