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By Paul Takahashi (contact) 
Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 | 7:35 p.m.
Metro Police arrested a local mother on child neglect charges after her unsupervised son was hit by a school bus on Monday. Kimberly Marie Russi, 31, of Las Vegas, was charged with two counts of child neglect, one with substantial bodily harm, for leaving her two sons routinely unsupervised at a school bus stop. Officers were called about 6:40 a.m. to a school bus stop near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard North and Walnut Road, near Nellis Air Force Base, to investigate a traffic accident involving a Clark County school bus and a 6-year-old boy. Upon investigation, traffic officers found ...
District needs to file a lawsuit against the mother before she does the same. Other parents are not responsible for children left unattended.
are you kidding me they arrested her for leaving her kids at the bus stop, I see kids all the time at the bus stop with no adult watching them I dont see them being arrested, I see kids walking to school at 6:15 in the morning its dark and no parents with them
DanM,
So no one should ever stand up to these negligent parents and set some kind of a precedent?
Really? I see children younger than 5 walking around all over town. This boy was with his older brother at a school bus stop. What is the age when they can go alone? 7? 8? 9? 10? I'm sorry, this arrest is ridiculous. If I see any child alone on the corner under 7, am I supposed to call Metro? What is the law on this?
Common sense dictates you don't leave a 6 year old alone at a bus stop in Las Vegas. Based on the garbage walking the streets in some parts of town..I would'nt want anyone under 13 (teen) walking around alone. This kid also has emotional problems..likely the result of an incompetent parent.
Throwing rocks at cars?
Darting in and out of traffic?
Running into a school bus?
This child is well on his way to juvenile detention if someone doesn't intervene.
@Tom, I agree with you, but it doesn't sound like our fellow posters read the other article you are referencing.
Apparently, the boy was in the habit of playing a game of chicken with the cars on Las Vegas Blvd, throwing rocks at them from the median , etc. Witnesses said he did it every day.
A small boy at the bus stop in my quiet residential neighborhood (or walking to school by himself), OK. On Las Vegas Blvd (or any street large enough to have a median) not so much.
Is that a bruise on her nose in the mugshot, or just funky lighting?
My Las Vegas elementary school had a bike rack, and I rode my bike to school frequently. How is it that a child at a bus stop translates as negligent parenting?
I guess my parents and every other parent in my neighborhood were negligent because we all stood at the bus stop without parents. These charges don't make sense.
You should not leave a six year old by themselves period. From what they report the child was a problem on the bus stop and liked to throw rocks at cars and other parents "who watch their children" said it was typical for him to run out in the streets.With the times the way they are you cant leave "any children" unattened. From the looks of moms pix, maybe she couldnt get home fast enough to do some meth or crack. Children are parents responsibility or dont have them.
The child is too young to be left at a bus stop. 30 years ago is was safe but not now.
I agree the charges are a bit much. In my day, we stood by US Route 66 and waited for the bus. There wasn't a parent in sight.
Besides, children that age are very quick. What would the mother have done? Perhaps, jump in front of the bus? Come on!
To arrest or not to arrest, that is the question - one that has deeper roots than any concerned citizen should dare ask.
Freedom and rights cannot be tampered with based on random events. We must however examine why events happen to get to the root cause of those events, mitigate them, and hope by doing so prevent recurrence.
Back to families - the basic unit of society.
Any kind of reform in education, labor, and economics are all for naught if you leave out the basics - the very foundation that sustain society.
Sadly, politics get in the way. And so, we continue on our path toward the infernal cliff.
If the kid was "routinely darting in and out of traffic and throwing rocks at cars" as previously reported, then she absolutely deserves this.
I used to walk to school when I was a kid, and 90% of the other kids did. Metro is bias against working class people. If this happened in Summerlin to an executive's kid..no charges. Look at when the Supreme Court judge crashed her car into the copy shop, one law for them another for us.
If schools are forced on people in this state, and transportation is a necessity, perhaps the schools should be forced to monitor the bus stops then. We cant jail people for allowing their children to participate in something mandatory.
Politics at work. How many of the other kids at the bus stop were not "supervised" by their parents? Have they all been tracked down and arrested? I agree the woman should have been pulled in, told what her kids were doing and warned to stop the behavior, but to arrest her and impose $20,000 bail? Hardened criminals are freed under lesser bonds. How about arresting those at Child Welfare for not following through on the complaint about the 7-year-old who was later beaten to death? They get a pass? And some say we need bigger government with more pencil-pushing, unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic drones who couldn't care less because actually working interferes with their donut & coffee breaks!
We can comment all day long about the charges but they come on the heels of an accident where a little boy was run over by a school bus unsupervised...exactly why he should have been supervised. Who would argue that less supervision is better than supervision? Ignorance is again running rampant...
A single mother who trying to make ends meet. Now charged with child neglect. Metro shoot and kills unarmed citizen all day long. Steve Wolfson won't get off his butt and prosecute them for anything. What a joke this state has become.
Is there an age metro considers legal? I think they just make up the rules as they go along just like when they shoot an unarmed citizen.
She was arrested for burglary on October 12, 2012. A real winner, that one.
Maybe we should all call child protective services when we see any unsupervised children at bus stops. With 100's of thousands of calls maybe they will realize these are ridiculous charges.
@erbryan88- why would you 'assume' that the mother is a user of crack or meth? How good would you look in a booking photo? Had she known her picture was going to betaken, she probably would have put on makeup. I think your comment was cruel and uncalled for. Shame on you.
How did I ever make it to 58 years of age? After years of riding in a car with two smoking parents, not wearing seat belts and walking to school on my own, I have no idea how I ever got out of childhood!
Makes me think that there is something more to this than just the bus stop thing. Maybe mom has a record of other things?
By all indications this incident was an ACCIDENT -- as such, child neglect charges don't apply since physical or mental injury as a result of abuse or neglect must be non-accidental in nature.
I submit such charges were likely the result of a recent incident in which a local child was beaten to death by supervision and an over reaction by law enforcement officials.
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Who is their right mind would allow a six year old baby to be out at sunrise alone. C'mon the sun isn't even up yet. She needs to stay in jail. I have a nine year old son I don't allow to walk to school alone.
"As the school bus arrived, the younger boy darted onto the road...." I am suprised there is no indepth Q & A - part of "investigative reporting" - information provided in this story, as to WHY the little boy moved from the curb into the street, or what the driver was doing.
BUT WHO SAID THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED? The BUS DRIVER? WAS IT NOT QUESTIONED, or CONFIRMED? Did this "NOT normal" School Bus Driver pull CLOSE TO THE CURB? Or did the driver just STOP IN THE STREET - thus evoking a reaction from the little boy? And how many months, etc. had the boy stood with others at this bus stop - waiting - and not been hurt before? What CHANGED to foster this accident?
WHY was the school bus going "SO FAST" in approaching the SCHOOL BUS STOP that the DRIVER COULD NOT, and DID NOT, STOP before running over the boy's foot?
Further, WHY did the police STATE (as reported) that it was due to the MOTHER's negligence- because she was absent from the bus stop? Did the mother's absence violate some "BUS STOP RULE"? NEGLIGENCE has to be proven before guilt is applied.
Maybe the DRIVER was NOT looking out for children waiting at the bus stop. But then, how would he know to stop and pick them up? Isn't OBSERVATION a part of bus driver training? And isn't that also what the BIG MIRRORS on a School Bus are for?!
WHY wasn't the DRIVER cited as being complicit, or negligent in this accident? It sounds like the police wrapped this up just focusing on the mother - and without, as reported, CONSIDERING whether THE DRIVER was at FAULT.
This SUN story sketchy and is insufficient, and if this is all the Court had to send the MOTHER to Jail, and to set bail at $20,000 - I consider this an improper arrest, and miscarriage of justice. SOMETHING IS FISHY HERE, and it seems the Sun reporter did not look for it.
THIS, inspite of the fact that the Sun says it is an "investigative" newspaper. But, this is not the first time I have seen a similar lack of responsible reporting from a few Sun reporters. And once again, we have a shallow report that has left us amazed and uninformed.
So Mr. Greenspun, will you please get your Editors to put more pressure on Sun reporters to give us the: who, what, when, where, how, and why - of a story, or don't bother to let them write it.
Added note: newspaper stories are used in Courts as background, part of evidence, and perhaps tantamount to proof. So reporters should be REQUIRED to do their "due diligence" - and investigate all aspects of a story to find out what happend - and then, report it accurately.
I hope my commentary will cause reflective thinking by Sun Editors on these issues.
"Who is their right mind would allow a six year old baby to be out at sunrise alone. C'mon the sun isn't even up yet. She needs to stay in jail. I have a nine year old son I don't allow to walk to school alone."
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Yes. Especially in this city. Numerous witnesses have reported that this little punk in the making was throwing rocks at cars on a regular basis, darting in and out of traffic and for some reason, (I vote stupidity) ran at the bus in traffic and got clipped. Hopefully lesson learned.
This isn't Mayberry, it's Las Vegas..home to some of the worst miscreants who wouldn't think twice about taking advantage of a 6 year old walking to a bus stop at 6am.
I wanted to say that The person who bred these offspring should be arrested for beastality however I will reframe from that and say why? would someone have two names or an AKA?
She has a 125-page history with CPS. That's why she was arrested. This was not an isolated incident.