The mother of a six-year-old boy who was dropped off a school bus 12 miles from home in Union on Friday says the boy was also lost on the bus on Wednesday.
Bethanie O’Flaherty, who picked up her child Friday near the railroad tracks after a construction worker found him walking along Highway 34 and crying, said she also had to look for her son on Wednesday.
O’Flaherty said she signed her son Seth Foreman up for the bus, but had not received any route information from the school. She said she called the first grade teacher to say she would pick up Seth at school and put a note in his daily folder.
While she waited at Northside Elementary School, however, she saw Seth through the window of a bus as it pulled away.
O’Flaherty followed the bus to Hayward Elementary School, where she got Seth’s attention and motioned for him to get off.
“At that point I was able to walk up to the bus and take him without saying anything. The bus driver, no one asked me any questions,” she said.
“I don’t like that you can just walk up to a school bus with that many kids and just take kids off,” she said.
She said if she had not seen him through window, she does not know where he would’ve ended up.
O’Flaherty thanked the construction worker, Steve Bescheinen, for helping her son.
