Mother forced to walk a mile in pouring rain after being thrown off bus... because her three-month-old baby was crying



A German bus company has been heavily criticised after a driver order a mother with a three-month-old baby to get off, because of the noise her daughter was making.

Jasmin Trapke, 24, was forced to walk 20 minutes in freezing rain to her parents' home after she was thrown off the bus.

She told how she was on board the vehicle in Elmshorn in northern Germany travelling for a weekly meeting with her parents when daughter Mia-Sophie began to cry.

'Consequences': The driver of a Die Linie bus threw a mother off his vehicle after other passengers complained about her daughter crying

'I tried to comfort her but it's not as if you can tell a baby to be quiet and it understands,' she said.

'I saw two elderly women get up and approach the bus driver as he was driving along. Then the bus suddenly stopped and an announcement came over the loudspeaker - "get off! You, with the baby!".

'I was dumbfounded at first. Then I grabbed the pushchair and left the bus. I was in tears.



'It was freezing cold and I had to walk in the rain for 20 minutes to get to my parents' home.'

Hate mail: Jasmin Trapke, 24, was forced to walk for 20 minutes after getting off the bus in Elmshorn during heavy rain

Bus company Die Linie has been bombarded with hate mail since the incident and the local Chamber of Trade and Commerce has also criticised it.

The company has apologised to Ms Trapke and said there will be 'consequences' for the driver.



Two weeks ago station staff refused to halt a regional express train with a two-year-old alone on it after his mother was left on the platform as the automatic doors closed.

Staff said that it had 'run out of time', forcing the mother to be driven at high speed by police for an hour to catch up with the train at the next stop where her son was found unharmed.