Boy left behind on school bus

TROY - A Troy mother is angry. Her 8-year-old son was left unattended on school bus for more than an hour and a half. Now she wants the bus driver fired.

The child fell asleep on the bus and apparently the bus driver didn't see him at the end of his route.

His mother, 40-year-old Serita Brevard, says that's just not acceptable.

"My heart went to my stomach that day," she said.

That day was Friday last week. Brevard says she panicked for an hour and a half wondering where her son -- a third grader at New Covenant Charter School in Albany -- might be.

"I called the police, everybody in the neighborhood is looking for him. And I'm pacing and don't know what else to do," she recalled

"For an hour and a half, someone took my baby. I can't even explain that feeling. A part of me was just gone," Brevard said.

She called the bus company, Northland Transportation. She says someone there told her that her son was dropped off.

It turns out Zereem fell asleep and he was left on the bus.

Brevard says they didn't find her son. Her son found them after he woke up and stepped out the bus into an empty parking garage and walked right into the company's offices.

"He would have been locked up at the base of the buses panicking in Menands. We live in Troy," she said.

Brevard says the bus company plans to reprimand the driver, but that's just not enough.

"He needs to be fired because an average person leaving their child alone, police would take them out in handcuffs," she insisted.

Brevard says her son now refuses to get back on the bus. She has to drive him to and from school.

Northland Transportation did not return NewsChannel 13's phone calls for comment.