'I was beyond furious and so upset, I haven't slept with nightmares of what could have happened to him'
A mum has spoken of her anger after her son with Down Syndrome was forgotten and left alone on a school bus and ended up in a busy car park while the driver was shopping.
"My son is Christopher and he is nine-years-old and on Wednesday there, the 21st, I got up as usual with him, got him ready for school. Then my husband he had text me then a message around about 9.30am that morning to give him a wee ring, I rang him and he said to me, 'Did you not put Christopher onto the bus this morning?'," said the mum, known on the Nolan Show as Maria - not her real name.
"Well the bus driver went over into Lidl to do his shopping. How he never noticed my child was still on the bus it beyond me." "I am still very angry because the way I see it is they said before this should never happen again in their statements with these other children and it has been allowed to happen again," she said.
Assistant Director of Transport for the Education Authority, Eve Bremner, told the Nolan Show: "Firstly I want to start by again offering a sincere and unreserved apology to Christopher and his family for what has happened. This was completely and utterly unacceptable so we are upset and really disappointed this has happened particularly given the efforts we have gone to ensure that clear procedures are followed.
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