A troubled special-ed student went missing from her Brooklyn public school Monday — and the girl’s mother said officials never even told her about the incident.
Nashaly Perez, 15, of Coney Island, a bipolar and possibly suicidal student at PS 371-Lillian L. Rashkis, took off about 12:10 p.m.
Her mom, Sandra Perez-Rodriguez, came to pick her up at 1 p.m. because she could not meet her daughter at her bus at the normal dismissal time.
But when she got to the school, her daughter’s para-professional told her the girl had left the grounds after lunch.
“I said, ‘Why didn’t you call me?’” Perez-Rodriguez said.
She called cops about 1:20 p.m. after learning that no one from the school — which Nashaly had attended for only 10 days — was even looking for the missing teen.
Nashaly’s disappearance comes just short of a year from when Avonte Oquendo, 14, ran from his Long Island City school last Oct. 4. The autistic boy’s remains were found in the East River more than three months later.
Attorney David Perecman, who represents Perez-Rodriguez and also represented Avonte’s family, blasted school officials.
“In the Avonte case they did not call his mother or the police for an hour. It’s almost the anniversary
. You’re telling me within a year you lost two children?” he said.
Nashaly had been bullied and hospitalized four times in recent years because she had suicidal thoughts, her family said.
School officials reassigned the principal of PS 371, Joan Antonelli, a schools source said.
The 5-foot-3, 120-pound teen was wearing a white bandanna, red blouse, black jeans and red and black sneakers.