Missing Toronto boy, 4, found safe and sound

A four-year-old boy has been found safe and sound after he didn’t show up at his school, Toronto police say.

He was located Monday afternoon at another school, Nile Academy on Blue Haven Crescent, near Finch and Islington avenues, about seven hours after his mother unknowingly put him on the wrong school bus.

“Thank god that we found him all safe,” the boy’s mother Natalie Epassa told reporters.

Her son was last seen in the area of Humberwood Boulevard and Kingsplate Crescent, near Rexdale Boulevard and Hwy. 427, boarding a yellow school bus at 8:15 a.m., Const. Wendy Drummond told 680News.

 

 

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Drummond earlier thought the child may have gotten on the wrong school bus as his family is new to the area. Police were also checking to see if he was mistakenly driven to another school, which turned out to be the case.

Const. Angelo Costa told reporters Nile Academy was expecting five new students, so the administration thought he was one of the them. And the private school was also French immersion, a language the child spoke.

CORRECTION: Toronto police had earlier said the boy was five years old and black.

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