Found Deceased Poland - Dawid Zukowski, 5, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, 10 July 2019

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Polish police are searching for the fifth straight day for a small boy whose father failed to deliver him to his mother and then died after being hit by a train.

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Police, aided by sniffer dogs and drones, have combed in vain through thousands of hectares (acres) of land and abandoned buildings around a highway between Warsaw and Grodzisk Mazowiecki, where the father's car was last seen Wednesday.

Later that day, the father of 5-year-old Dawid Zukowski was killed by a train. Media reports quoted the train's driver as saying the man threw himself under the train.

Police in Poland search for missing boy whose father died

Dawid Żukowski. Jasnowidz Krzysztof Jackowski o zaginięciu dziecka z Grodziska Mazowieckiego | Dzień Dobry TVN
 
Sadly i think he probably did harm to the boy before killing himself.

Yes, sadly this does feel like a "if I can't have you then nobody can" sort of case. Very sad. It would be interesting to know a bit more about the family background and history. I'm sure it probably involves a custody battle.
 
Poland authorities conducting 'biggest search' ever for boy whose father was killed by train

The circumstances are almost to horrible to describe. The boys father was divorced / seperated from the mother.

During a period when he had custody of David, he sends the mother a text stating that she will never find her son. The father then committed suicide by throwing himself under a train.

Polish law enforcement has launched a massive search for the boy and have also asked for assistance from Germany.

The victim is Polish- Russian with the father being Polish. This could lead to an international incident as well. Historically, emotional incidents involving Poles and Russians have the potential to snowball in negative ways as various non related historical wrongs centered on “who really did what to whom first and why” can get brought up and accusations and counter accusations made.
 
It's my first post here, so hello everyone. I've been reading this forum since the Turpin case last year but without registering. Yesterday I found out there is a thread about Dawid, so I decided to register. I come from another region of the country, not close to the area where the police search is conducted. Still, there are news about it every day. As I am from Poland, I may translate for you the details that have been told in Polish mass media until now about this case. I will do it later. Sorry if I make any mistakes, English is not my first language.
 
Great to see you here @nisha! I don't feel that this thread is getting enough attention, perhaps because so much is in polish, so it would be great to have you translating some updates into English. I do keep looking for updates but you might have better access to them than me!
 
OK, so here's what has been told so far by the media.

Dawid was a 5-year-old boy of Polish-Russian nationality, his mother was Russian and his father was Polish of Kazakh origin. They had not been living together for 3 weeks before the father's suicide. Dawid's mother moved from him to Warsaw, taking the boy with her. She was going to divorce her husband but did not start the procedure so far.

The father's co-workers and friends told the newspapers that he was a calm man, he seemed to be a good father, but had problems with hazard that caused huge debts. This probably was the reason behind his conflict with his wife. 2 weeks before the suicide, he stopped going to work for unknown reason. The information about the hazard and debts was not confirmed by the police, yet it appeared in media.

There was also the information that Dawid's mother reported to the police that her husband was mentally abusing her. However, there are no information about any physical abuse to her or Dawid before.

Other thing that leaked to the media is that father was married for second time. After the divorce, his first wife went to Ukraine with their child.

The timeline:
10th July
17:00 - Dawid's father picks the boy from his grandparents - that's when the boy is seen the last time.
17:28 - Father is driving to Warsaw through Chrzanow Duzy. He stops the car for a few minutes near the Konotopa highway junction.
about 18:30 - F. goes back to Warsaw. On the way back, he stops for 40 minutes near the Konotopa highway junction again. He is talking with wife on the phone and she tells him about her divorce plans.
18:34 - F. sends the last text message to mother. He writes that she "will never see her child again". It's the last time they get in touch.
19:34 - F. goes by car to Grodzisk Mazowiecki through Chrzanow Duzy.
about 20:00 - F. pasks 3 kilometres from the railway tracks, near the church. He goes to a church and prays.
20:52 - F. dies hit by the train. According to the train driver, it was a suicide.
In the meantime Dawid's mother, after attempts to contact the father again by phone, drives to his home by herself, but he is not home.
11th July
about midnight - Mother is going to the police office to report the boy is missing.
2 a.m. - The car is found.
The timeline was based on the monitoring from cameras and data from GPS. However, the exact time when the boy left the car is not known. Father switched off his phone a few times during this time, and the videos from cameras couldn't show the child.
I read that in Warsaw father and Dawid were observing the planes near the airport. Mother talked with Dawid by phone when he was still in the car and nothing was wrong, according to her.

I also read that the mother contacted the police after midnight, not earlier, because she did not believe that her husband could harm the child. She thought about his message that "he was being malicious again". That's why she tried to pick up the boy by herself.

There were some rumours in a newspaper about the blood and urine found in the father's car or on his clothes, but the police officially denied these, saying that they don't have the results of the examination of the car and clothes. The phone was also found with the father. His clothes and phone are severely damaged and need time to be examined.

The search lasted for 10 days and was very intensive, with the use of drones, helicopters, dogs and specialistic equipment.

2 hours ago I read that the police has just announced they found the body in the water, 5 kilometres from father's home. They are almost sure it is Dawid. This has to be confirmed yet by his family, but condolences for Dawid's family appeared on the official police profile. The prosecutor will announce more details about his death when it is possible. Investigation will continue.

So sad to write this. A few hours ago, when I wrote here for the first time, the search was still in action. Poor little boy :(
 
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@nisha
All your infirmation needs to be substantiated by links for the source (except you are repeating something already posted on this thread, then you can reference this). Otherwise your posts may be deleted

Here is a link to the found body, it is in english

Police ‘almost certain’ they found body of missing five-year-old

On Saturday, the police found the body of a child in a water reservoir located near the A2 highway in central Poland. The deceased is believed to be the five-year-old boy who went missing on July 10.

According to Mariusz Mrozek, the spokesperson for the police Chief Superintendent, the investigators are “almost certain” that it is the body of the missing five-year-old Dawid. Several clues, most notably, the clothes of the deceased boy, point to it.
 
So sad! Although I am not surprised by this news, what an incredibly sad ending. I don't know how any parent can do this to their own child, whatever the circumstances. RIP little Dawid, you are at peace now.
 
@Darling136 Thank you! Sorry I forgot about the sources. I wanted to write it quickly and am still not sure how to put the links. Do I have to put it in the post above, or here is OK?

Most of the information I wrote is here:
Matka Dawida zawiadomiła o znęcaniu się. Wcześniej wyprowadziła się z domu - Okolice, Włochy
There are information about the family background, the acquaintances' opinions about the father, the rumours denied by the police, and how mother reported the abuse.

Here's the timeline and info about the search, day by day:
"Największe poszukiwania w historii" dzień po dniu

The official Twitter profile of Polish Police confirms finding of the body:
Polska Policja on Twitter

The rest of the information is here, this article was updated regularly and now also tells the body is found:
Dawid Żukowski nie żyje. Policjanci znaleźli ciało dziecka 10. DZIEŃ POSZUKIWAŃ 20.07.2019

All of these is in Polish.
 
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Missing Polish boy's body found; dead father only suspect - 660 NEWS
Police carried out a massive search for the boy along a highway between Grodzisk Mazowiecki and Warsaw, where the father had driven before he died. The body was found Saturday in bushes by a water reservoir near the highway.

The spokesman for Warsaw prosecutors, Lukasz Lapczynski, said Monday that an autopsy would be performed to determine how Dawid died.
 

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