Autistic kindergartner escapes CMSD school, goes missing for about an hour

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Leeann Blackburn is holding her 5-year-old son, Larry, a bit of nearer after he escaped from his CMSD college on Thursday.

“I panicked out the home, rushed up there,” Blackburn mentioned. “I believed he was simply lacking inside the varsity.”

Larry, who’s autistic, one way or the other was in a position to depart unattended from Clara Westropp Elementary on Cleveland’s West Aspect.

Round lunchtime, academics seen Larry was nowhere to be discovered.

They instantly referred to as a code blue and began on the lookout for the lacking kindergartner.

CMSD mentioned some academics even bought in their very own automobiles to go search for him.

About an hour later and several other blocks away, Larry was discovered. A Good Samaritan noticed Larry strolling alone and introduced him to a different close by elementary college.

The varsity referred to as Cleveland Police and helped return the boy again to Westropp Elementary.

Blackburn is grateful for the one that introduced her son to security.

“You’re an angel to my son,” Blackburn mentioned. “If it wasn’t for you, he would have been kidnapped or worse.”

Blackburn mentioned her son is thought to be a runner, so he wants somebody to keep watch over him always.

“He’s imagined to have a number of academics within the classroom always with him as a result of he can’t deal with an enormous ambiance and he’s identified for eloping and working out of a classroom,” Blackburn mentioned. “It’s been said in his IEP.”

Blackburn wouldn’t want a heartbreaking scare, like this, on another mother or father.

“I feel faculties ought to be held accountable for a similar wrongdoings as a mother or father could be held accountable if it was our fault,” Blackburn mentioned.

CMSD informed 19 Information it’s investigating this incident.

“The protection of our college students is our prime precedence,” Tom Ott with CMSD mentioned. “We’re conducting an intensive evaluate to find out whether or not all procedures have been adopted and can take any motion that’s acceptable.”

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