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Sick 7-year-old with special needs walks home alone from Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School

A Yonkers mother is demanding answers after her special-needs son slipped out of school unnoticed and walked home by himself. Jeremy Melendez, 7, had gone to the nurse Wednesday at Martin Luther King

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Sep 23, 2014, 12:44 PM

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