Autistic toddler drowns

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I wasn't sure whether to put this in the parent's section?

A 18 month old autistic toddler took 30 seconds to wander out of his family home and go missing in Perth Western Australia in broad daylight. After a major search just under 2 days his body was found in a nearby lake.

What's most disturbing is the toddler must have wandered past a number of people's homes and crossed 2-3 roads in broad daylight before ending up in the lake. People are shocked nobody witnessed the little toddler and did not stop to help?

A warning to all parents...
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western ... 8276058559

People are always going to find somebody to blame.

I don't think blaming people who were probably in their back garden unaware, or in their front lounges with the blinds closed, is the right thing to do. Those same neighbours probably dropped everything they were doing to join the SES search for him due to the guilt they shouldn't be expected to feel.

They STILL haven't found the little boy in my area who disappeared in a 2 minute window while his nanna's back was turned. Every man and his dog living in a 20km radius joined that search. If the sense of obligation from people who didn't even live in the town is that strong, imagine what the people who live 2-3 streets away feel?

Tragic faultless s**t happens.

As the parent of an autistic child, I can't even bring myself to imagine what that must be like.

what happened is awful, but I haven't been there at the time and therefore dont know if someone saw the little child. Maybe they were home while he walked past. It's my understanding Australia is populated very thinly, with house spaced very far apart, and it's summertime now and real hot, so people tend to stay indoors with the air conditioner on, drowning every sound.

And when you drive, you dont look at the sidewalk. If the toddler crossed the roads and stayed alive, then perhaps no car went by during those minutes.

You have to be in the same place in the same minute he walks by in order to see him. Five minutes before or after, and you've missed him.