MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU) – The first week of school is stressful enough for parents. And for the mother of a Beiger Elementary School student, her day was thrown into disarray.

Megan Link was at home this afternoon when her five-year-old daughter, who was supposed to be at school, walked through the front door of her house.

“Suddenly my five-and-a-half-year-old daughter comes through the door and says, ‘Hi mom, I’m home,’ and I say, ‘What are you doing here?'” Link recalls.

This is a question every parent would ask their child who should be at school. But it wasn’t the only question Link had. How did her daughter get home and why wasn’t she notified?

“So my daughter was able to walk around this fence here and go out through this gate, and mind you, it’s not lockable,” Link said. “She made it through this gate, around the sidewalk, down the next block and home. I live a block away from here and nobody noticed. How is that possible?”

Megan wanted to take her daughter back to school to finish the day, seeing how this could happen. And the answer worried her.

“The cameras cover the entire area and stop at the corner wall on the other side of the playground,” said Link. “The director showed me that you can’t see anything behind the wall.”

Megan raised her issues with the principal but didn’t get the answers she was looking for.

“When the principal brought it to my attention to assure me it wouldn’t happen again, she said if it did happen, she would take away my daughter’s recess,” Link said. “You have to do your job, period. There were four adults outside with a Mishawaka security guard. How can something like that happen?”

Link spoke to an official with the School City of Mishawaka who said they were looking into the situation.

When contacted by WNDU 16 News Now, school officials were not informed of the ordeal and said they would issue a statement once they had more information.

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