Indiana mom pulls daughter from school after 6-year-old left behind on field trip: 'She thought she was lost'

An Indianapolis parent has pulled her first-grader from her schoolhouse aft the 6-year-old was near down astatine an pome orchard pursuing a tract travel past week.

Dearra Allen says her girl Cianni went to Tuttle Orchards successful Greenfield, Indiana, past Wednesday with her charter school, Christel House West Academy.

"My ma calls me, and she goes, ‘Hey, the schoolhouse called, and they near Cianni astatine the pome orchard,’" she told Fox News Digital implicit the phone. "I thought she was playing."

Once world acceptable in, Allen instantly ran retired the door, picked up Cianni's dada and rushed to the schoolhouse to fig retired what was going on.

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Cianni Allen, 6, seen present showing disconnected a missing bony from her smile.  (Dearra Allen)

Cianni's teacher told the parent she did a headcount earlier leaving the tract travel location. Allen responded that if the headcount had been accurate, her girl would not person been missing.

"They truly had thing to accidental different than I was right," Allen said aft pressing schoolhouse officials for answers. 

Cianni told her ma 1 of her classmate's dads was her chaperone during the tract trip.

"Cianni said she conscionable kept playing due to the fact that helium ne'er called [her] name. Well, past she said she looked up a small later, and she noticed that everybody was gone," Allen said, adding that her girl went to look for idiosyncratic successful the pome orchard country anterior to going to the pumpkin patch. 

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Cianni Allen, 6, tin beryllium seen astatine a skating rink. (Dearra Allen)

Cianni Allen's parent told Fox News Digital the 6-year-old was near down pursuing a tract travel connected Oct. 16, 2024.  (Dearra Allen)

"She said this woman came retired of obscurity and was like, ‘Hey, what's wrong? Are you OK?’ and she was like, ‘My schoolhouse near me.’"

Cianni was past taken to an office, wherever she was held until her main went to get her.  

"When we got to the school, she wasn't determination yet, and I didn't cognize that," the parent said. "They was astatine the schoolhouse by the clip they realized that they didn't person Cianni."

The thrust clip between the schoolhouse and orchard is astir an hour, Allen said, leaving the first-grader without immoderate schoolhouse attraction for astir 2.5 hours.   

Family photograph of Dearra Allen, Cianni Allen, Cianni's older sister and younger brother.  (Dearra Allen)

Allen said past tract trips involving her oldest girl and Cianni done Christel House West Academy had gone disconnected without a hitch. 

Cianni and her parents did not reunite until 4:30 p.m. the time of the tract trip, Allen said. Along with Cianni, she besides withdrew her oldest girl from the school. 

Allen says she remains confused and feels similar she was being lied to astir who was chaperoning her girl astatine the clip of the incident. The parent said 2 classes were connected the tract travel astatine the time, and she believes 50 students attended. 

As for Cianni, her ma said she was "so heartbroken, distraught. She didn't deliberation she was going to spot america again. She thought she was lost."

Cianni Allen, 6, seen successful this parkland photograph taken by her mother. (Dearra Allen)

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The schoolhouse territory provided the pursuing connection to Fox News Digital:

"Christel House is committed to the information and well-being of each of our students. As soon arsenic unit identified the situation, they took contiguous steps to guarantee the information and well-being of the student. We enactment intimately with families to supply afloat enactment to code immoderate concerns they whitethorn have.

The spot placed successful america by our families and assemblage is of utmost importance, and we are dedicated to upholding that spot with the highest standards of attraction and responsibility."