Missing 5-Year-Old Boston Girl Found; Mom Says School Sent Her Home on Wrong Bus

A 5-year-old girl went missing for several hours Monday, prompting Boston police to ask the public for help locating her.

The Boston Police Department issued a missing person alert for Nylah Kamara around 6:30 p.m. Monday, saying she had last been seen when she was dropped off at the Match Charter School -- located at 100 Poydras St. in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. Less than 20 minutes later, police canceled the alert and said the girl had been found. They did not provide further details.

Nylah's mom, Kyiesha Alexander, tells NBC10 Boston her daughter went missing because of a mix up at her Boston charter school on the first day of Kindergarten. She was allegedly put in the wrong class, was called by the wrong name and was put on the wrong bus home.

"I’m shooken up, I’m angry,” Alexander said. “Blown away that it’s her first day of school, she’s only 5 and they couldn’t even tell me where she went.”

Alexander told NBC10 Boston that staff at the Match Charter Public School mixed up her daughter, Nylah, with another student.

“When I got a call this afternoon that she was marked tardy, I was like ‘oh, maybe they just got it wrong, you know, it’s the first day of school, mistakes happen,'" Alexander recalled.

The school’s alleged mistake turned to mayhem when Alexander came to pick up her daughter around 4 p.m.

“I’m waiting for her to come out the door. She never came out,” Alexander said. “They couldn’t tell me where she was. They couldn’t tell me what bus she was on.”

Alexander said it took the school over two hours to finally locate her daughter, who was still riding on the bus.

“She was in the wrong classroom,” Alexander shared. “They were calling her the wrong name. That’s the only explanation I got.”

There were plenty of hugs when Alexander was reunited with her daughter Monday night, but she can't understand how this happened in the first place.

"That's a huge mix up that shouldn't have happened," she said, "and I just pray this happens to nobody else's kid."

NBC10 Boston has reached out to the school directly, as well as a spokesperson for Boston Public Schools, but we have not heard back.