Mass. mom outraged driver left son, 5, on school bus

The boy got on the school bus in Cambridge, near Boston, last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock to go to his after-school program. But the child fell asleep and he never got off, CBS Boston reported.

No one realized Reign was missing, including at the Martha Fuller House afterschool program in neighboring Somerville, until his mother came to pick him up at six o'clock.

"When I arrived they informed me he wasn't there. And my heart dropped," Zendy old CBS Boston.

She called police and the bus company found him, on the school bus at the bus lot in Somerville, shivering, scared and alone.

According to Dendy, "It was cold, it was dark and he tried to get out. He kept saying 'I tried to get out and I couldn't get out.'"

Eastern Bus Company suspended the driver, and says the driver will be fired if they find she didn't complete the mandatory inspection required by law after completing a route.

Cambridge school officials said their children will never be allowed in the driver's care again.

The Martha Fuller House had no comment when CBS Boston called to ask why they didn't notify the boy's mother when he wasn't dropped off for the after-school program.