COVINGTON, La. — A Covington daycare is in trouble after a toddler escaped. A woman found him wandering along the road and called police.
Melissa Williams had just accepted an Uber order, around 11 a.m. Tuesday, when she saw a two-year-old boy wandering along the roadway.
Williams told Eyewitness News, "In the middle of the street, there was a little boy."
She went on to say, "I asked the little boy his name, and I couldn't understand it and he said mama's at work."
According to Covington Police, the child wandered off from this daycare, Bambi's Kids Academy, a private daycare center here in Covington. We reached out to the daycare. We're still waiting for a response.
What shocked Williams the most she says, is that she found the child before the daycare did.
"I asked how did he get out and she said the front door."
Police say the boy was walking alone near West 21st Avenue.
Williams said, "To me the probability of him of being hit by a car or truck was higher than him being kidnapped."
Williams a mother herself hates to think what could've happened if she had never accepted that Uber order.
"I wanted the mom to know that I found her little boy in the middle of the street all alone."
She says she's spoken to the toddler's mother, the mother called her an angel and says she's thankful her son is home safe.
"I am not a hero, I am a mom," she said.
Covington Police say no charges have been filed yet and the investigation is ongoing.
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