Mom: 5-Year-Old Forced To Walk Mile Home After School

MORROW, Ga. -- A Morrow mother is outraged since she leaed that her 5-year-old walked a mile from school all by himself.

It was 5-year-old Julius Mays’ first day at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary after-school program on Monday. His mother, April Weston, said he won’t be there much longer.

”A 5-year-old walking home. To me, that's unacceptable, April Weston told Channel 2’s Erica Byfield.

Mays said when he went to the building, he was tued away.

”My name was not on the list, and they told me to go, Mays told Byfield.

He said he then walked home just after 3 p.m. His house is one mile away from the building, down a windy two-lane road.

While the trek could’ve been quite an adventure for a young child, Weston said her heart sank after her son recalled an encounter with a strange man.

”A gentleman in a red car was trying to tell him how to get home, Weston said.

Weston said she is thankful her son made it home safely, but she holds the school responsible.

School officials said they were investigating the incident. Weston said they apologized and offered Mays a free week in the program, but she said that’s not enough.

”That is an insult to injury, Weston said.