A Los Angeles County couple is demanding answers after their 5-year-old son managed to walk away unnoticed from his after-school program – and was later discovered alone near a busy California highway nearly a mile away.
Natalie and Brett Epstein’s son, Oliver, attends kindergarten and an after-school program at North Park Elementary School in Valencia. But on November 4, the child somehow slipped out of the building and away from school grounds without anyone noticing.
Instead, he ended up alone near a McDonald’s on McBean Parkway, about 1.2 miles away, more than three hours later. It was the family’s nanny who spotted the boy alone along the stretch of highway where cars fly by and called the father…