FORT LUPTON — The parents of 3-year-old Aiden Lawson searched for their son for nearly an hour before a neighbor spotted the boy floating in a golf-course pond Saturday morning.
The boy’s mom, Bonnie Lawson, said she knew when she saw him pulled from the water that he would not survive.
“I prayed, but I knew,” she told 9News. “He had been in that water for 45 minutes. You hear of miraculous things happening, but I knew he wasn’t going to recover.”
Lawson said she and Aiden were playing around the house when Aiden managed to slip out the sliding door into the back yard. Once in the yard, he climbed over the fence and ran to the pond.
She said she wants every parent to know how easy it is for a child to slip away. Aiden was autistic and needed a lot of supervision. “I looked away for one second, one simple second, and he was gone,” she said.
