The child, Mohamed Fofana, disappeared Sunday evening from a park on Castle Island in Boston Harbor.
"Troopers from the MSP Special Emergency Response Team and State Police Detective Unit for Suffolk County were ferried to the island by the Marine Unit, and they have confirmed the body to be Mohamed.
Fofana was last seen playing at a park on Castle Island at around 7 p.m. on Sunday. The child had gone to the park with his older sister as well as his grandfather, Soleymane Fofana, who called 911 after Fofana disappeared near the water.that search operations had begun on Castle Island and the surrounding harbor before 9:30 p.m. Using helicopters and patrol teams covering land and sea, the search continued into the night and resumed early on Monday morning.
Mohamed's mother, Matenjay Fofana, and his grandfather released two images of the child on Monday morning as they asked the community for help finding him. At the time, they told CBS Boston that"Mohamed can't talk," explaining that the child was on the Autism spectrum and also suffered from sickle cell disease.
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