Missing Autistic Boy's Body Recovered; His Father's Poignant Post on Facebook

Tré Goins-Phillips : Oct 1, 2018
Faithwire.com

"...Just please hug ur children tighter and please dont make my mistake and let them get too far away from u. Do everything u can with ur children because i wont get the chance to do anything with mine. Now to Maddox i just want to say i love u lil buddy. Please be waiting for me when my time comes..." -Ian Scott Ritch-Facebook post

(North Carolina)—[Faithwire.com] After an intense search involving local authorities and the FBI, the body of six-year-old Maddox Ritch was discovered Thursday in a creek just one mile from the North Carolina park, where he first disappeared. (Photo: Ian Ritch and son, Maddox/via Facebook)

In a gut-wrenching Facebook post about the tragic development, Maddox's father, Ian Ritch, wrote, "Today I found out I'm not a dad anymore. I had big plans with my son."

"I wanted us to go fishing, play ball, go camping. I wanted to be his heroe [sic]," he continued. "I wanted him to say I was more than Superman or Batman to him. I wanted people to ask him who his heroe [sic] is and him say, ‘My daddy'"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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