December 12, 2012 1:45 PM
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Las Vegas mother arrested after unsupervised 6-year-old son is hit by school bus
Kimberly Marie Russi
/ KLASKimberly 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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