this is from a news report when William first went missing:" At 10.56am, utterly distraught, William’s mother calls 000 and reports him missing, telling the operator they’ve been searching for 15 or 20 minutes. She can’t understand how a child can simply vanish. There is no way in the world, she thinks, that he would have gone into the bush. Even at this early stage she worries that someone may have taken him. But here? In Kendall? It is such a small community that everyone knows each other.At 11.06am the first police car arrives; word has spread throughout the township’s 800 or so residents that a little boy is lost and dozens of locals are out looking. A command post is *established outside the house on Benaroon Drive. At 11.12am the Dog Unit is dispatched. The SES is informed at 11.44am. At 12.52pm a police helicopter takes to the sky."
The question I have always had, and in my mind I keep going back to is this: Even at the early stage, within 15-20 minutes, the mother/foster mother (call her what you will, but she was William's mother, having cared for him since before his first birthday and would be the only mother he would know) was "worried someone may have taken him". Given the location (his grandma's house in a nice safe neighbourhood) and with William outside playing, most parents would think that he was still playing but had "hidden" just out of sight. The Police were called within 15-20 minutes and were on scene at the house 35 minutes after William was last seen. This seems to me to be a very fast response by the Police. And 6 minutes later the Dog Unit was dispatched. Once again, a very speedy response. And by 12.52 pm a Police helicopter is in the air actively searching for William. Police obviously took VERY SERIOUSLY the concerns that William may have been taken and VERY EARLY.
Children go "missing" for brief periods when playing every day in Australia...they hide, they come inside and hide under the bed or in the wardrobes, they come inside to go to the bathroom, they wander off inside to get a toy or find food or a drink...many times they don't come when they are called, they are distracted or keen on jumping out and going "boo!"...not many times would a parent be so quick to phone the police and the police be so quick to respond as they did...
I think there is a lot more to this then the public are being told and I do not think this was a random opportunistic happening. Although an earlier poster on the forum stated what they had heard was "too whacky" I think it would be wrong to look at this simplistically...it is a complex crime and there is a lot more to this case than what lies on the surface. That said, I hope that the trust I have in the Police is not misplaced. I think they know how and why it is so complex and I have respect for how they have conducted their enquiries so far...I hope for a resolution soon, as I am sure we all do.