School bus driver loses job for leaving student 4 miles from home after youngster fell asleep [Video]

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A Palm Beach County school bus driver was fired after officials say he left a teenager four miles from his home earlier this year.

Tony Mancuso, a 15-year-old student at Suncoast Community High School in Riviera Beach, fell asleep on his school bus heading home in March.

His stop is usually the last one on the route and when he woke up around 4pm, he told bus driver Gerald Marston, 69, what had happened.

“I’m sorry. I fell asleep and need to go home now,” Mancuso told the driver, according to The Palm Beach Post. Marston reportedly told the teen “I can’t go back. Sorry about that.” He then instructed him to get off the bus and call one of his parents to come and get him.

Marston left the teenager at …