Authorities are searching for a 6-year-old boy with autism, who is described as nonverbal and has been missing since Saturday.

Authorities are searching for a 6-year-old boy with autism, who is described as nonverbal and has been missing since Saturday.

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North Carolina authorities widen search for missing 6-year-old with autism

Police hope a missing autistic boy will respond to his mother and father's voices, and they're pumping prerecorded messages from his parents into the woods of a sprawling park in Gastonia, North Carolina, in hopes of drawing out the youngster.