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Missing Autistic Boy Found Alive After Six Days

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Missing Autistic Boy Found Alive After Six Days
The thousand volunteers who searched in Virginia this week for 8-year-old Robert Wood Jr., missing since Sunday, expressed jubilation today with the news that the boy had been found.

The thousand volunteers who searched wooded areas in Virginia this week for 8-year-old Robert Wood Jr., missing since Sunday, expressed jubilation today with the news that the boy had been found.

The severely autistic boy who cannot speak went missing 6 days ago while on a walk with his family in North Anna Battlefield Park in Hanover County.

He was found curled up on the ground in a rock quarry.

(READ the story from the Richmond Times-Dispatch)

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