Workers of a Houston-area daycare facility are currently cooperating with law enforcement to understand how a three-year-old boy was left inside the daycare’s transportation van following a class field trip Thursday afternoon. Unfortunately, it was simply too late by the time the staff realized, as the young boy had already succumbed to the extreme Texas heat.
The “Discovering Me Academy” took a total of 29 students to a nearby park as part of a school field trip, according to CNN. Upon the field trip’s completion, the kids were loaded onto the van and returned to the school between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m., when the driver and chaperone claim to have unloaded the van and guided the kids inside the daycare facility. According to the Harris County sheriff’s office, school records show that the person in charge of roll call had marked the missing three-year-old boy as “present” on the list, and that it wasn’t until 6:30 p.m. when the boy’s father showed up to pick him up that they realized he was missing.