ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) — A local mom claims the Allentown School District lost her six-year-old son while he was in school.<\/p>\n
Karina McField told 69 News she was waiting in the main office at Ramos Elementary on Monday to pick her son up early, when the school could not locate him.<\/p>\n
“I was nervous, like oh my god, my son is missing. But, I was also mad. You guys are asking me where could he be,” McField recalled.<\/p>\n
McField says the school pulled surveillance video showing Gabriel walk right out the door.<\/p>\n
Gabriel told us his teacher told him his mom was waiting for him and to go downstairs. He didn’t see her so he walked outside. Then he kept walking.<\/p>\n
“I was just looking up and down streets and knocking on people’s doors who have Ring cameras, showing them what he was wearing. What he looked like,” McField said.<\/p>\n
McField told us Gabriel started walking home, took a wrong turn and got lost and then got upset. He was missing for two hours and was found thanks to a good Samaritan who saw the boy in the middle of a four-lane street when he stopped her car.<\/p>\n
“There was a young girl there and she said he was in the middle of the street on Hamilton with his hand out. He stopped her car and was like I’m lost, can you help me? He was crying and she was like well my name is…. and I’m going to take you to the police so they can call your parents,” McField stated.<\/p>\n
McField says her son hasn’t been back at school since and that Child Protective Services visited her home to tell her family they’re investigating the situation at Ramos.<\/p>\n
“I want an apology for what happened, I want to know how it happened, what their procedures or protocols are for dismissing a student and sending them unchaperoned down to an office on the third week of school because I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know what the office is,” McField said.<\/p>\n
We reached out to the Allentown School District regarding the situation and have yet to hear back.<\/p>\n
“You trust the school to know where they’re at at all times and keep them safe and when they don’t, they’re asking you, ‘where could he be?’ ‘I don’t know. You’re supposed to know,'” McField concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) — A local mom claims the Allentown School District lost her six-year-old son while he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,5114],"class_list":{"0":"post-92167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-instagram"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}