The child was originally at Low Moor, Va.-based Alleghany Regional Hospital when the police officer arrived to transport the child to the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents in Staunton, Va., 75 miles away, the report said.
The officer gave the child their belongings in a plastic bag, told them not to move, and drove away instead of waiting for an administrator, the report said. According to an employee of the mental health clinic, the scene was all captured on video.
There was no bed for the child and no staff to admit them, the report said.
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