Bus driver arrested after leaving 5-year-old on bus for hours

NEW BRITAIN - A bus driver in New Britain was arrested for leaving a child on a school bus for several hours.
On Wednesday, police say a mother of a Smith Elementary School student got a call her 5-year-old son had been marked absent, but she had put him on the bus at 8:40am.
New Britain police began investigating the missing child. School administrators reached out to the bus company DATTCO, which confirmed the child was picked up that morning.
They later found the boy still asleep on the bus