A homeless man is receiving praise and thanksgiving after risking his own safety to save the life of a 6-year-old child who ran into traffic.

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The scary situation unfolded recently in Green Bay, Wisconsin, when Faith Roberts, a mother of four kids with special needs, told WBAY-TV that the youngest of her children, Honeretta, who has Autism, took off running while the family was in the middle of moving from an apartment to a home.

“She elopes, and she thinks it’s funny,” Roberts said. “It becomes a game of chase. So it’s a kind of like a dog: If you run, they’ll chase you; if you chase her, she’ll run.”

The problem? The child ended up in the middle of a busy road, leaving the family deeply worried about her safety. Honeretta’s grandmother

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