Parents demand answers after 12-year-old leaves Nanakuli campus unattended

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Parents demand answers after 12-year-old leaves Nanakuli campus unattended

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The parents of a 12-year-old Nanakuli student who requires one-on-one supervision are demanding answers after their daughter left campus unattended and was later found walking along Nanakuli Avenue.

Chloe Kahiamoe, a seventh grader, left school Aug. 11 and was found by a relative who happened to be driving through the area to get food. Her parents said they were not notified by the school before the relative found her.

“She was crying. She’s distraught and everything,” Chloe’s father, Alika Kahiamoe-Terukina, said. “I just told her, baby, daddy coming. Just wait.”

Her mother, Nani Kahiamoe-Terukina, said Chloe was found walking in the road rather than safely on a sidewalk.

“Anything could have happened to her,” she said. “We’re lucky that just so happened the right people at the right time saw her and was able to recover her.”

The family met with school staff the following day to discuss what happened. According to Nani, school officials told them Chloe had been upset in class and that her teacher accompanied her outside before she went into a bathroom. The teacher said he was waiting outside when Chloe slipped past him and left campus.

But Chloe’s parents say their daughter’s account is different.

“She will tell you this story over and over with no bathroom involved,” Nani said.

The family also questions how Chloe was able to leave campus and make it to Nanakuli Avenue despite her individualized education program requiring one-on-one adult supervision at school.

Alika said the family met with Chloe’s teacher before the school year began and discussed her behaviors and triggers.

“We warned him numerous times, you got to watch her,” he said.

The family received an incident investigation report with estimated times, but Alika said they are still waiting for surveillance footage and specific timestamps showing when Chloe left campus.

“We got one official incident investigation report. It’s just a timeline, estimated times,” he said. “They said they would provide us the timestamps on the camera and the footage showing my daughter leaving campus. And still, they haven’t provided anything.”

State Sen. Samantha DeCorte, R-Ko Olina, Nanakuli, Maili, Waianae, Makaha, and Makua, who has spoken with Chloe’s family, said the incident raises concerns about student safety.

“So in this situation with Chloe, she was having one-on-one care. So what was that teacher doing?” DeCorte said. “You have one job, you’re one responsibility, you have one student, and you couldn’t even do that.”

DeCorte also said Chloe’s case is not the first time parents have brought concerns about the school system to her.

“This isn’t the first parent that has come to me showing me the email paper trail, showing me who they’ve been talking to,” DeCorte said.

Chloe now has a new teacher, according to her family.

Her parents said they want accountability and answers about what happened, why they were not notified sooner and whether the school’s supervision policies were followed.

Hawaii News Now contacted the school and the Hawaii Department of Education for comment and was still awaiting a response.