KINGSVILLE, Texas — A Kingsville mother experienced every parent's worst nightmare when her nonverbal 5-year-old son was mistakenly placed on the wrong school bus and went missing for hours.

Kimberlee Gonzalez went to pick up her children from Jesus R. Perez Elementary on Thursday, but her son Zayden was nowhere to be found after school dismissal.

"I was very heartbroken. I was terrified," Gonzalez said.

School staff immediately began searching the campus for the missing child but found nothing.

"They started looking for him inside the school, all over campus, and came back out and said he was nowhere to be found," Gonzales said.

After the school searching, Zayden’s parents called Kingsville Police to assist in the search. Officers reviewed surveillance video and discovered that Zayde

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