Nonprofit pushes for fencing around public water after autistic child drowns

After a 24-plus-hour search, the body of 9-year-old Jenny Din was found in a pond near her Florence home on Saturday.

When Din was first reported missing at around 5 p.m. Friday, investigators’ first step was to issue an IAN Alert as they began their search.

“It is triggered anytime there is a missing juvenile with autism or any sort of severe disability,” Lt. Anthony Theetge with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office said…

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