by ABC-7 Reporter/Anchor Abe Lubetkin

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- What would you do if your child was forced to get off a school bus at the wrong stop?

That is the situation one Las Cruces mother had to grapple with Wednesday, when her 8-year-old daughter was let off on a busy street nearly half a mile from her usual stop.

Eight-year-old Destiny Maciel got off the bus at Valley and Tashiro, a busy intersection where there is no place to stop and ask for directions.

Destiny's mother Amanda said that didn't stop a bus driver from telling her daughter it was her last chance to get off the bus.

Destiny is a third-grader at East Picacho Elementary, and she is supposed to get dropped off at a daycare center after school.

"At one point when she told the bus driver, 'This isn't my stop', she told her, 'That's tough. This is my last stop'," Amanda said.

School officials acknowledge Destiny was placed on a different bus since her usual bus was full, and the driver told her to get out at the wrong stop.

Destiny's mother said her daughter stood there for a few minutes but was getting bitten by mosquitoes, so she started walking. Daycare personnel found her 20 minutes later.

School officials said the driver violated clear protocol, which is not to let children off if they claim they are at the wrong stop.

Amanda wants to know how it happened in the first place. "What kind of people do they hire? Do they do training? I expected these people to be fired. Are they just going to retrain them? Or what are they going to do? I have a lot of questions for the bus company."

ABC-7 tried to talk to the bus company, but managers did not respond to our questions.

ABC-7 also tried to ask a bus driver if he has been told what to do in those situations, but the driver slammed a bus door and drove away in response.

School officials will not say whether the bus driver will be disciplined, but they did say bus company managers met with them to go over the rules.