After our story aired about the frustration parents in Portsmouth have with school buses at the start of the school year, families have continued to reach out to News 3 voicing their concerns.
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“I called her name and I’m standing in the aisle panicking because this is my worst nightmare,” Nicole Henry, a Portsmouth mother, said.
Henry said she relies on Portsmouth school buses to bring her daughter home from kindergarten.
She said her daughter is a 5-year-old with autism and on Wednesday she didn’t get off at her stop.
John Hood When Henry got on the bus to see where her daughter was, all she saw was her Hello Kitty backpack.
She said the driver allegedly told Henry the bag belonged to the one she let off at the last stop about a block away.
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