Moment five-year-old boy rings doorbell for help after he and another child were dropped off at the WRONG stop by school bus driver
Two five-year-olds were left at the wrong bus stop in Edmond, Oklahoma and forced to wander for more than an hour in a neighborhood miles from their home.
Kelly Mulholland said her son and boyfriend Jonathan Vanderlois’ daughter were supposed to get off at a bus stop at Napa Valley Road and Bristol Park on Monday, but never showed up.
Mulholland, who is pregnant, said she frantically searched for the children and eventually found them near a home they had been admitted to when she looked for someone to help them after they rang the doorbell.
The doorbell footage uploaded by Mulholland shows her son walking to the door, ringing the doorbell and desperately asking a voice from the ring camera, “Will you help me find my mommy?”
In the video, Mulholland’s son, whose name she did not name, appears frightened and confused as he talks in the voice of the homeowner who was not there when they rang the doorbell.
Here’s the disturbing moment when a five-year-old boy rang a stranger’s door asking for help finding his ‘mommy’ after being let off his school bus at the wrong stop
“I’m not home right now,” says the voice, as the boy paces back and forth, then runs back to the street where the young girl had been waiting.
In a Facebook post, Mulholland described the ordeal as a “parents worst nightmare,” detailing how her son and friend’s daughter got lost.
“We had a pretty interesting first (and last) day riding the school bus,” she said.
‘I’m at the bus stop 20 minutes early to be picked up, because well, I’m scared.
Mother Kelly Mullholland was outraged by the lack of security
“Almost an hour after they were supposed to drop off, I finally see the bus, so I get out of my car and walk to the corner of the street to pick it up.”
Mulholland said the bus didn’t stop at this point until she walked a little further out.
The bus driver opened the door and the first things that came out of his mouth were, “Oh, do you have to have kids on this?”us?’ Full. Panic. Mode,” she said.
She then told the bus driver she expected to see two five-year-olds, but says the driver “completely neglected the policy.”
“He didn’t check their names against the bus stop and let them get off at another stop, which was information that didn’t even come from the driver, but from an older child on the bus,” she said.
‘I start asking him frantically which stop, to which he keeps replying ‘the last’ and pointing down the street.
“We don’t live in a small neighborhood, and he couldn’t tell me which streets.”
While searching, Vanderlois went to the children’s school, Charles Haskell Elementary, to get answers.
In a twist of fate, Mulholland said she saw a neighbor drive by who asked if she was looking for two children and they rang his doorbell.
“He told me which streets and I race over to find they are no longer there,” she said.
“Some other people came out of their houses and started to help me knock on the door to look for them.
Mulholland is pictured with her young son, whom she found half a mile from where he was to be dropped off
“Eventually we find them at a house a half mile from where we live, and another half mile from where they were dropped off.”
Mulholland said the kids had been out and alone for more than an hour in five-hour traffic and 105-degree heat.
The Oklahoma mom said she shared this experience as a ‘cautionary tale’
‘JIt turned out better than it certainly could have been, but what an absolute omission,’ she said angrily.
The Edmond school district’s policy is that bus drivers only drop students off when a parent is present, and that young students have a wristband or tag on their backpack that identifies their bus.
DailyMail.com has contacted Edmond School District and Charles Haskell Elementary for comment.