JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville family is outraged after they say their 5-year-old girl was placed on the wrong school bus and dropped off nearly two miles away from her regular bus stop.<\/p>\n
The child is a student at KIPP Voice Academy Charter School in Brentwood and lives in Moncrief. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Action News Jax\u2019s Madison Foglio spoke with the child\u2019s family and the woman who found her. <\/p>\n What seemed like an ordinary Tuesday almost turned into Joseph Kelly Sr.\u2019s worst nightmare. <\/p>\n \u201cWhy did you leave my child there?\u201d Kelly Sr. said.<\/p>\n Every day, Kelly picks up his five-year-old daughter Brielle at her bus stop between Avenue B and Butler Street in Moncrief, just like it says on the bus card attached to her backpack. <\/p>\n Kelly says the bus normally arrives between 3:50 and 4 pm. But when the bus pulled up on Tuesday, he said he knew something was wrong. <\/p>\n \u201cNormally, she\u2019ll be like the second or third kid getting off the bus,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cWhen I looked up and one of the kids was trying to signal me to tell me what the bus driver was actually trying to say because she was like \u2018Oh no, they didn\u2019t put her on the bus\u2019 and so here I am cause I\u2019m in panic mode.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelly immediately called the school.<\/p>\n \u201cI could never get a hold of anybody, and I called them like 2 or 3 or 4 times,\u201d Kelly said. <\/p>\n Kelly already knows the pain of losing a child.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the only thing that I have…of my late wife, she been gone along with my son, and it\u2019s been 4 years now,\u201d said Kelly.<\/p>\n Brielle was dropped off behind what used to be Lake Forest Elementary School on Kennard Street. <\/p>\n Her loved ones believe she got on the wrong bus. She was dropped off over two miles from her assigned bus stop.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Thankfully, Stephanie Gary was driving by and noticed something was wrong. <\/p>\n \u201cAs I was going through slowly, I was stopped by a couple children, about 4th 5th grade, and they asked me was I her mother,\u201d Gary said. \u201cYou can tell she was afraid; she didn\u2019t know what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n A mother herself, Gary\u2019s maternal instincts immediately kicked in. She posted on Facebook a picture she took of <\/b>Brielle, saying she was lost and asking if anyone knew her parents.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Through her post, Gary was able to connect with Brielle\u2019s loved ones. She also called JSO, and ultimately, they reunited Brielle with her family. <\/p>\n \u201cI was ecstatic!\u201d Kelly said. <\/p>\n Kelly said the Assistant Principal did call him on the day Brielle went missing. <\/p>\n We reached out to KIPP for a statement on this. 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