A 6-year-old girl was placed on the wrong school bus after classes at Maricopa Elementary School and transported to a different campus, leaving her unaccounted for about 90 minutes and prompting a police search, confirm city and school district officials.

The girl’s mother, Emily Murre, wrote on Facebook that she is “absolutely disgusted,” calling the episode “a catastrophic failure of basic safety protocols” at the Maricopa Unified School District campus.

“What happened recently was not a simple mistake; it was a catastrophic failure of basic safety protocols that put my daughter in danger,” Murre wrote.

Murre said that when her spouse contacted the school, staff “couldn’t even confirm if my daughter had been present that day, let alone her current location.”

“Their absolute inabili

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