Las Vegas mother arrested after unsupervised 6-year-old son is hit by school bus

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

Kimberly Marie Russi

/ KLAS

(CBS/KLAS) LAS VEGAS - Police say the mother of a 6-year-old Las Vegas boy whose foot was run over by a school bus Monday has been arrested, according to CBS affiliate KLAS.

Kimberly Marie Russi, 31, sent her young son and his slightly older brother to the bus stop unsupervised, the Las Vegas Sun reports. As a bus approached the student pick-up area, the boy stepped into the road and the bus ran over his foot, the police said.

KLAS reports the boy was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for what were described as substantial but non-life-threatening injuries.

Russi, who also goes by the name Kimberly Dela Cruz, was reportedly arrested and charged with a count of child abuse or neglect with substantial bodily harm and a count of child abuse and neglect.

Police say the bus that hit the boy was not one that he usually rides and that the driver was not at fault.

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by VA_Jill December 13, 2012 1:56 PM EST: This is absolutely ridiculous. My kids always walked to the bus without me. Apparently the law is now that we must all be helicopter parents.; Reply to this comment


by judymar14 December 13, 2012 12:26 PM EST: It sure was different in my child rearing days, the 60s. My 8 and 6 year old walked three blocks to school, and when the youngest stared school at 6 he joined them. When he got out at half day, he walked home along. There was a traffic monitor on the two streets he had to cross. This was an accident, that this woman was charged is ridiculous. No mention of the age of the "slightly older" brother.; Reply to this comment