Lost 5-Year-Old Boy Found Wandering, School To Blame?

A lost 5-year-old boy, Kevin Rice, was found wandering half a mile away from Edison Elementary School, where he was supposed to be.

This is not the first time a lost boy was found in the news recently. According to a report from the Inquisitr, a lost 13-year-old boy was found after four years of captivity and returned to her step-mother living in Georgia.

The lost 5-year-old boy was picked up on Fenkell and Prevost Avenue, half a mile away from Edison Elementary School, where he was supposed to be learning.

“I was yelling for them, but they didn’t hear me because I was lost,” said Kevin Rice.

“They gave him to somebody. They don’t know who it is,” said Evan Greer, Rice’s father.

Thursday marked the first day of Kevin’s kindergarten at Edison Elementary School. When Greer arrived to pick Kevin up from school, he was gone.

He said, “The lady told me, ‘Yeah, somebody already came and picked him up.'”

This is when Greer began to panic because his 5-year-old boy was lost.

“You hear all the stories about kids getting raped and coming up missing for four years. You know, that’s what I thought was going on with my son,” said Greer.

In reality, the lost 5-year-old boy had gotten on a school bus and got off and started walking by himself. He was yelling for his parents, trying to find his way home. Patricia Ford was sitting in her car at Fenkell and Provost, and she heard Kevin yelling.

“He walked over to the car and I was like, ‘Hey, little man,’ and his face was really sad,” said Ford. “I was asking him what was wrong, ‘Are you lost?’ He said, ‘Yes.’ From that point I grabbed him, gathered his trust and talked him into getting into the car.”

It was a good thing Kevin knew his dad’s phone number. Ford called Greer and stayed on the phone with him till the lost 5-year-old boy was reunited with his father.

“He was missing for an hour. They don’t know who took him, the bus driver saying that he didn’t take him,” said Greer. “It’s all about the what ifs. My son was missing for an hour. He could have been anywhere within an hour.”

Greer is now suspicious that the Detroit school was to blame for this incident. How could they be so careless as to let a 5-year-old boy wander off and get lost?

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