Concern expressed after boy left all day on a Tri County school bus
GREEN TOWNSHIP, PA — Purchase Line School District has expressed its concern over last week’s incident in which a 5-year-old boy was left on a Tri County Transportation school bus during an entire school day. The incident is leading to a charge of endangering the welfare of a child against a 69-year-old Marion Center-area resident, who has since resigned as a bus driver.
State police at Troop A, Indiana, said the boy’s mother called on Nov. 22 at 6:13 p.m. to report she had put the child on School Bus No. 1 at approximately 8 a.m. that day, only to be told by Purchase Line Elementary School that the youngster was absent. “At approximately (4:15 p.m.) School Bus Number 1 dropped her child off at the (Green Township) residence,” Trooper Logan D. Small wrote in a state police public information release. “(The mother) contacted Purchase Line and Tri County Transportation, to determine where her child was throughout the day.”
Small said an investigation determined that the child never got off the school bus between 8 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. He said a driver for Tri County, only identified as a 69-year-old man with a Marion Center address, was questioned for the incident. Small said he quit on Nov. 23 and is being charged through Clymer Magisterial District Judge Christopher S. Welch’s office for child endangerment.
The name of the suspect was not available Monday. It was not released by state police and Welch’s office said it had not received a criminal complaint about the incident. Tri County is a Northern Cambria-based bus provider that works with Purchase Line and multiple other area districts, including Penns Manor Area, United, Northern Cambria, Cambria Heights, Portage Area and Punxsutawney Area.
‘Northern Cambria’ is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,835 at the 2010 census.
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