Re: OT:Child with Autism lost/kidnapped in FL

[Guest guest]

OOPS Sorry everyone. When I first copied this link to post it, the

little boy had not been found. So sad to read the latest updated

link.

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> Saw this today on CNN... wonder if the parents might possibly be

on

> our list. Praying for his safe return.

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> http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/24/missing.boy.ap/index.html

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> Friday, February 24, 2006; Posted: 11:31 a.m. EST (16:31 GMT)

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> Police issued an alert for McGuire Friday.

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> GREENACRES, Florida (AP) -- The body of a small child was

discovered

> Friday in a canal near where an 8-year-old autistic boy

disappeared

> a day earlier.

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> Police had been searching for McGuire since Thursday, when a

> witness reported seeing a boy matching his description being

forced

> into a white van by a man with a goatee.

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> The body found in the canal was not immediately identified, but

> authorities fear it may be , who has severe autism. 's

> mother told authorities she last saw him sleeping on a couch

> Thursday, and police said he may have wandered out of the house.

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> Police used helicopters and dogs to search for in the

> neighborhood, 8 miles south of West Palm Beach.

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> The cause of death of the child found Friday was not immediately

> released.

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