5-year-old with autism plummets multiple stories from fire escape in Morrisania while parents were sleeping

A Bronx family is devastated after police say their 5-year-old son with autism fell from a fire escape in Morrisania early Monday morning.

It happened on East 167th Street. Authorities say the child, identified by family as Javontai, somehow made his way onto a third-floor fire escape before falling onto the sidewalk below.

“My son just fell — I’m thinking the worst,” said his father, Javon Franics…

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