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Baby missing after dad jumps off bridge

He has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day.

Weeks before a man jumped off a bridge with his seven-month-old son, who is still missing, the child’s mother applied for a restraining order, court documents have revealed.

The Harford Courant uncovered the documents revealing Adrianne Oyola, the mother of missing baby boy, Aaden, applied for a restraining order against the child’s father as she feared for her life, as well as her son’s.

“He has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day,” she wrote in the application.

“He told me how he could make me disappear, told me how he could kill me.

“I feel that he is a danger to my child and me and would like to leave with my child and get full custody.”

A temporary restraining order was granted on June 17 until a judge denied a permanent restraining order at the court hearing on June 29.

On Sunday, Aaden is suspected to have been in the arms of his 22-year-old father, Tony Moreno, who jumped from the Arrigoni Bridge into the Connecticut river in a suicide attempt just before midnight.

Moreno’s family called Middletown police immediately after Moreno called them, threatening to jump.

The sound of a baby crying could be heard in the background.

Two police arrived on the scene to see Moreno take the 150-foot fall before he was rescued and airlifted to Harford Hospital, where he is now in a stable condition.

Emergency services have been searching for the seven-month-old who is believed to have been in the arms of Moreno when he jumped.

The two police who arrived on the scene early saw the 22-year-old jump, but did not see the child.

However, sources have told The Harford Courant witnesses have come forward to police, claiming to have seen Moreno holding a baby on the bridge above his head before he jumped.

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