4-year-old leaves day care to wander streets

The parents of a 4-year-old boy are irate after their son wandered away from his baby sitter Friday morning and was found about an hour later crying at an east Carson City intersection.

Terry and Heather Kilfian said Tuesday that their son, 4-year-old Dorian, had wandered away from the baby sitter at Slide Mountain Drive.

A passing driver found Dorian at about 7:40 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Molly and Camille drives wearing his pajamas, clutching his black blanket and bawling, his mother said.

Dorian had been left in the care of a home-based baby sitter for two weeks while his mother worked mornings at the Mountain View Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Terry Kilfian said it was an emotional moment when he learned from Child Protective Services that his only son had been wandering in traffic. Dorian directed Child Protective Services workers to his home on Long Street, where his father was about to leave for work at 9:30 a.m.

"Once they told me they found him in an intersection I went blank," Terry Kilfian said, while he watched his son play in the living room. "They asked me his birthday and I didn't know. They asked me how old he was and I didn't know. I had to call Heather. It just blew me away that he was sitting in an intersection and could've been hit by a car or kidnapped."

Tuesday was the first day Heather Kilfian could allow her son out of her sight so that she could go to work. A friend is watching him.

"He knows his boundaries," she said. "It can happen that fast. You never know."

A report was submitted Tuesday to the district attorney's office for review, said Carson City Sheriff's Lt. Bob White.

• Contact reporter Becky Bosshart at bbosshart@nevadaappeal.com or 881-1212.