HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – An 11-year-old boy was allowed to leave Stovall Middle School even though he was not allowed to, Aldine ISD confirms.

Helen Sabio said her son, who has autism, had not yet been assigned a bus route, so she picked him up from school on Tuesday afternoon.

But Sabio said when she arrived at the school, her son was not there.

“I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I went through,” Sabio told Eyewitness News in Spanish.

The school district said Sabio’s son left school with a group of students who were supposed to walk home and expressed regret over the incident.

Sabio said she later received a call from METRO police telling her that her son had boarded a METRO bus.

“My biggest fear would be that he would have gotten off at a random stop and gotten completely lost,” said the boy’s sister.

The district said Sabio’s son will be assigned a bus route and an adult will accompany him to his bus. Until then, she plans to drop off and pick up her son herself.

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