7-year-old left at wrong bus stop miles away in Arkansas

Tuesday, August 20, 2019
A family in Arkansas is demanding answers after their seven-year-old son was left at the wrong bus stop, then picked up by a total stranger.

Demarcus Watkins Sr. says he realized something was wrong when his child didn't arrive at his regular school bus stop last week.
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He says, instead, his son was left miles away, even after the boy insisted it wasn't his stop.

The father says the bus driver gave him a choice: get off there, or be driven back to school.

"Why would you give a seven-year-old child that type of option and they gave him that and he got off," says Watkins Sr.

And then he started walking.
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That's when a stranger who saw the boy on the busy street picked him up.



While initially concerned by that, the family is grateful it was a Good Samaritan, who drove the child home.

The Superintendent says the district is now reviewing video to determine how and why the situation unfolded as it did.
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