REGINA – A Regina mother says her three-year-old daughter who was left alone for four hours strapped into a daycare minibus is now suffering from nightmares.
Destiny Stonechild says her child, Sequiona, wakes up screaming and crying at night, and was afraid to get into a car seat in her mother’s own vehicle after her frightening experience.
Stonechild says she went to pick up Sequiona last Wednesday afternoon at the Aboriginal Family Services Centre and panicked when they told her the girl wasn’t there.
A bus service supplied by the Aboriginal Head Start Program was supposed to have dropped the youngster off three hours earlier.
She was eventually found early that evening, still strapped into a seat in the vehicle, but not before her mother had made frantic calls to track down an emergency contact and the director.
The driver has apologized and been reprimanded, and Stonechild says the Head Start Program has told her it will improve its communication with parents to prevent similar incidents.
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