The father of an autistic Laval, QC, who is presumed drowned boy calls the public to help find his son.
Bouazza Benhamama is asking people to search the shores and forests along the river of the thousand islands Saturday for any sign of his three-year son, Adam, who is not seen since Sunday.
The police believe that adam fell into the frigid waters of the River, which runs a few metres behind a House that the family was visiting Pointe to the Elm Street in the neighbourhood of Auteuil de Laval.
Police completed their search Wednesday after three days combing of the water, coastal and forest.
"We live on the hope that it can be found".-Bouazza Benhamama, father of Adam
In his first interview since her son disappeared, Bouazza Benhamama said CBC News, the family has not given up trying to find him, even if he died.
"It's agony at our home," said Benhamama, father of three children. "My wife, she can't sleep, she cannot eat. His life has been cancelled. I don't know how it can continue. I do not know. ?
He has struggled to explain his own feelings.
"He is my son." I would be rather died in his place. I can't express my feelings. ?
Adam Benhamama has disappeared to a neighbourhood of Laval, QC, Sunday afternoon. Laval policeOn Sunday, he and two of her children, that went to their homes in the neighbourhood of Anjou in Montréal to visit a friend of the family Benhamama said. His wife stayed at home with their youngest child.
The father said that his seven year old daughter and Adam played outside, in circles around a van parked running.
Benhamama intervened in the House and a few minutes later, his daughter alerted him that something was wrong, he said.
"She scored with his hand, ' Daddy." Adam, I can't find him,'"he recalled".
Benhamama said he immediately checked the river and saw nothing. This is that the family called the police.
Adam has been recently diagnosed with a mild form of autism and was difficult to hear and speak.
Police divers searched the River since Sunday and find no sign of Adam Benhamama. Research teams pickled CBCPolice the region with helicopters, sniffer dogs, divers and field research teams.
No trace of the boy.
His father is still hope that the boy will come, although police said there is little chance that he will be found alive.
"There is always hope," said Benhamama. "This is our child." We live on the hope that it can be found. ?
Laval police spent Thursday to distribute flyers of missing persons in houses along both sides of the River.
Approximately 1 000 brochures have been presented so far.
Adam is two feet high and weighs 25 pounds. He has been seen last wearing a tuque black and purple, a black jacket, jeans and blue and orange sneakers.
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