Photo: Plainfield Police Department
The search for a missing 4-year-old girl with autism came to a tragic close Friday in Indiana.
“Despite the valiant efforts of our citizens, volunteers, police, fire, along with local and state agencies, the search for missing NeeGee has come to a devastating and heartbreaking end,” read PPD’sstatementon Facebook. “This evening, a body of a child that matches the description of NeeGee was located in a body of water in the Legacy Farms subdivision.”
Hendricks County Coroner’s Office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Fiefe’s parents reported her missing Thursday afternoon toPPDafter she “wandered away from her home” in the Legacy Farms neighborhood of Plainfield, which is about 17 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
A woman identifying herself as Fiefe’s mother toldFox 59that her daughter went missing after a miscommunication that led her to believe the girl was with her grandmother.
“She has a history of leaving the residence unattended but they generally find her quickly and get her back,” Plainfield Deputy Chief Joe Aldridge told reporters Friday, according toABC News. The outlet noted that Fiefe was nonverbal and drawn to water, and the search focused on the 14 ponds in the area.
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source: people.com
