VIDEO: Florida Deputies Help Rescue Lonely Autistic Boy's Birthday Party
Video: Florida Deputies Help Rescue Lonely Autistic Boy's Birthday Party
An entire Florida community, including local sheriff's deputies, made a 6-year-old autistic boy's birthday party one that he won't forget.
February 19, 2015
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An entire Florida community, including local sheriff's deputies, made a 6-year-old autistic boy's birthday party one that he won't forget.
Glenn Buratti was turning 6 years old and invited all of the kids from his class to his birthday party. Glenn's mother, Ashlee Buratti, says the day of the party, nobody showed up.
"To see the look on his face killed me inside," Ashlee Buratti told Local 6.
Thinking she failed him, Buratti said she turned to Facebook and wrote a post about how badly she felt for Glenn.
Buratti said almost immediately, complete strangers responded and soon, kids and their parents started arriving with gifts.
Buratti's post also caught the eye of the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, who sent their own gift-- a flyover from the sheriff's helicopter. The deputies also pooled their own money and bought Glenn gifts.
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