It’s every parent’s nightmare. On November 19, 5-year-old Neymir Luka Valere wandered away from his home in Port St. Lucie, Florida, and ran full speed down the street until he found a lake nearby. When police located him a few hours later, he had drowned.
Valere was on the autism spectrum and nonverbal, and like a significant number of kids that age with autism, eloping was a constant safety concern for his caregivers.
According to officials with the Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) the child’s mother thought that her son was with an older teen sibling upstairs. but a doorbell camera from a neighbor’s house shows the boy running by at around 4:40 p.m. He was reported missing at 8 p.m. and officials launched a huge search party, in which Valere was located in the lake that night…