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Rock Talk, Vol. IX
Nothing jump-starts a Tuesday like a story about an endangered child — and today, we have not one, but two tales of kids in potentially dangerous situations, both under rather bizarre circumstances.
The first story comes from Dayton, where a school bus driver dropped a 4-year-old boy off at a random house so he could tinkle use the restroom. Cameron Houston was reportedly in tears when he told his Dayton ISD bus driver he "had to go potty real bad" on the way to school last Monday, so the driver stopped at another child's house and told him to go there while she circled the block.
"She lets him off the bus, she continues on her route," said Gewaltney. "She comes back around, waits another five minutes for him to come out. When he didn't come out, she sent my eight-year-old daughter off the bus at the same stranger's house to go and get him.""I went all by myself," said Cameron.
You rock, Cameron! But there are no gold stars for the bus driver, who violated district policy of only dropping students off at school or their own homes. Dayton ISD suspended the driver for a week and a half with, we assume, a good talking to.
Story No. 2 is from League City, where a mother has been charged with child endangerment after she dropped her 6-year-old daughter off at school on Saturday and left her there alone. Heidi Istre apparently didn't notice that there weren't buses and teachers and other kids at the school when she left her daughter there — she also didn't notice that the kid wasn't wearing a jacket even though it was about 40 degrees outside. A jogger passing the school at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday heard the girl screaming and called League City police.
Istre wasn't allowed to pick up her daughter. Instead officers arrested her and charged her with child endangerment. What police call neglect, Istre calls a mistake.She said, "I thought it was Friday. I got my daughter dressed. She thought it was Friday."
"There was also a possibility that there was either drugs or alcohol involved," suggested [League City Police] Lt. [James] Spencer.
Istre blamed her confusion on the five prescription medicines she's taking, which include two different painkillers. CPS has placed her daughter with relatives for the time being, but plans to return her to Istre and offer services to the family.
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