A 5-year-old Florida boy with autism left his home and was found dead in a nearby pond on Thanksgiving morning by authorities.
Aaron Pena had been missing from his Orlando home since around noon the day before, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. He was wearing dinosaur-print pajama pants and a brown shirt with a bear on it, but had no shoes on at the time of his disappearance.
His mother, Melissa Stanton, said she noticed her son was missing when she didn’t hear him make any noise in the house.
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A 5-year-old Florida boy with autism left his home and was found dead in a nearby pond on Thanksgiving morning by authorities.
(Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
“I wasn’t hearing any sort of laughing sound or him singing over and over, like repetitive songs, he does that, or he generally creates a stage where he talks to himself about the birds and the colors and the songs that he watches on. YouTube,” he told News 6.
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Aaron Peña had been missing from his Orlando home since around noon Wednesday.
(Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
Stanton looked around the house and saw that the back door had been left open. He explained that the door is usually locked and he thinks his son figured out how to open it.
Aaron’s body was discovered in the pond about 12 hours after his mother noticed him missing.
Aaron’s mother, Melissa Stanton, said she noticed her son was missing when she didn’t hear him make any noise in the house.
(Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
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“It is with a heavy heart that we must report that Aaron Pena was found, deceased, in a body of water not far from his home,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. “We are grieving the loss of him and our prayers are with his family.”
