THIS is the moment a two-year-old boy is seen running across the road on his own after escaping from nursery.
The tot’s distraught mum, Shannan Lees, 24, said she was horrified by the footage, saying: “He could’ve ended up dead.”
Little Harvey was filmed wandering into the road unaccompanied in Manchester[/caption]
Distraught mum, Shannan Lees said she thought her tot could have died[/caption]
Little Harvey was filmed wondering into the road unaccompanied in Manchester.
CCTV footage shows the toddler looking around before tottering off along the pavement.
He was picked up by a concerned woman who spotted him on his own and the call was soon made to Shannan to let her know what had happened
The terrified mum told Manchester Evening News: “I just can’t believe it.
“I was shouting down the phone, I was just in shock. I rushed down and the woman who stopped and ran after Harvey was also there waiting.”
She went on to describe how scary the clip was, especially when she thought that he could have been hit by a car and been killed.
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Her first response was to look for another nursery but she says that waiting lists are full up and she does not feel safe leaving him with his current daycare.
Shannan added: “You trust the life of your child with responsible adults and now I worry about doing that again. I think I would struggle now to leave him with someone else again after this.”
Ofsted have been made aware of the incident but refused to comment further until they had received more information.
A statement from the nursery said: “This was an unfortunate incident, which has never happened before. Thankfully, on this occasion the child came to no harm, and we believe from our investigation he was missing for less than a minute.”
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They offered an apology to Harvey’s family and said that they had reached out to them.
The statement finished: “We take the safety and security of all the children in our care extremely seriously.”
