A 4-year-old prekindergarten student had gone missing on his first day to class in a Yonkers, New York school, Yahoo! reported Thursday.

According to Cafe Mom, the toddler named Daren Maldonado was dropped off by his mom on his special first day in the hope of picking him up after his class is finally over.

However, when his mother, Angela Maldonado, had come to pick him up in the afternoon the little boy was not there, and no one in his class knew where he was, not even his teacher, who had told Angela that she didn't think any of the students under her class was named Daren.

Witnesses claimed that no one from the school even bothered to help the lost student's mom in tracking him down.

"No one really wanted to help her," Yesenia Morales, a mother of a daughter who is attending the same class told the station. "They were saying he probably ran off."

Angela spent the next two hours looking for her little boy, but her efforts remained futile until she finally decided to contact the local police to assist her in finding Daren.

Fortunately, Daren was reunited with his mother at around 6 p.m.in a Board of Education office, lohud.com reported.

The toddler was apparently put on the wrong bus by his teacher, and when no one came to pick him up at any of the bus stops, the little boy was taken to a Board of Education office.

Because of the incident, many parents took it online saying that the mistake the school and its teachers made was "just awful."

Many also commented on the fact that Daren's classroom teacher didn't know the little boy's name as well as on the idea that no one actually cared to help Angela look for her son.

"When we drop our children off at school, we entrust them to the care of teachers and school officials," Julie Ryan Evans wrote. "To see that trust so blatantly broken shakes us all."

Another concerned mother, Meredith Carroll, wrote, "To act indifferent when a child goes missing? They [the school] need a serious slap detention."