Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[Dotta]

As far as I know Gus's father has full parental rights so he was able to take his son to his living place in a fully legal way. There was no need to ambush him or keep him in the dark.

Exactly!!!

He might have had alleged argument with his in-laws
but it doesn't affect the son to whom he has full parental rights as a father.

 

[Ellery84]

As far as I know Gus's father has full parental rights so he was able to take his son to his living place in a fully legal way. There was no need to ambush him or keep him in the dark.

That's my understanding also.
But if dad wanted to take Gus, he would have organised it with the mum and not just randomly take him from the sandpit, right??

Because he's got full parental rights, so when he has Gus it's at his discretion?

Maybe Jess did call him to let him know his son was missing, and his phone may have been on do not disturb if he was sleeping.

Imho

 

[musicaljoke]

@katydid23 you make an excellent point.

The fact that no one called the dad, not even the cops tells me there may have been some initial suspicious on the dad. But since then the dad has been cleared of involvement and he's been holed up in Adelaide, reportedly upset about his son being missing.

Was the geographic seperation of parents amicable?

I am not certain that this is a fact. We don't know who may have tried to call the dad, or even if they successfully reached him. The arrival of the police at his home does not exclude the possibility of phone calls.

 

[Ellery84]

I am not certain that this is a fact. We don't know who may have tried to call the dad, or even if they successfully reached him. The arrival of the police at his home does not exclude the possibility of phone calls.

You're quite right. I have edited my post.

 

[Dotta]

Well...

As was reported
Father was angry that it was Police, not the in-laws, who notified him about son's disappearance.
And that it happened so late.

So I guess he was on phone all the time.

JMO

Quote

"It is understood Mr Lamont only found out his child was missing when police woke him up at his Belalie North home,
hours after Gus had vanished."

Gus's 'furious' dad is seen for the first time after son disappeared

The little boy vanished almost two weeks ago after playing in the yard of remote Oak Park homestead in the harsh South Australian outback, 300km north of Adelaide .

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Corina]

@katydid23 you make an excellent point.

Ok so let's hypothesise that no one called the dad, not even the cops...were initial suspicious on the dad?


So perhaps since that time the dad has been cleared of any involvement and he's been holed up in Adelaide, reportedly upset about his son being missing.

Was the geographic seperation of parents amicable?

Respectfully, I think the expression "holed up" has connotations that perhaps may have been unintended.

 

[statt#1]

If I were to have suspicion, and I'm not saying I do, but if I did, the focus for me wouldn't be on dad. I don't think Gus was 'taken' from that property. I don't think Gus wandered off into the bush....and I don't even think Gus was playing on that sand/dirt pile. I think one must look back prior to the young lad's reported disappearance for answers. That's just me, and it's my opinion, admittedly potentially being completely wrong.