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SANTA CLARITA, California ( KABC ) -- A family is outraged after their 5-year-old son walked away unnoticed from an after-school program in Valencia and was later found alone near a McDonald's a mile away from campus.

Natalie Epstein can't stop thinking of the worst-case scenario that could have been.

"I feel like I wasn't there to protect him," she told Eyewitness News Wednesday.

Brett and Natalie Epstein assumed their 5-year-old son, Oliver, was safe in his after-school program at North Park Elementary in Valencia.

Around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 4, Brett says he got a call from their panicked nanny. He found out his son had wandered off to a McDonald's on McBean Parkway.

While the nanny went to go get Oliver, Brett called his wife.

When Natalie cal

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