Overview
- A passerby alerted police around 9:15 a.m. on November 10 after seeing the child alone inside the Palma school.
- Officers found the yard gate closed yet easy to open with a push and located the boy inside.
- The child told officers he had entered as on a normal day, realized there were no classes, and chose to wait for his mother.
- Police escorted him to a nearby center with a scheduled activity, where an education counselor who knew the family helped reach the mother by phone.
- The mother was cited to the District East station, parentage was verified, and the boy was handed over to her, with the mother stating she was unaware it was a non-school day.