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

[ellabobballerina]

I said "looks like he might)
As a medical professional I think he has a few facial features which could fitting with this including a very thin vermillion border,epicanthal folds and potentially short palpebral fissures. The Australian guidelines for diagnosis

Yes I suspect that is why the family did not want to release a photo.
The only reason I mention it is because it is relevant in terms of
- FASD is associated with intellectual disabilites and autism - relevant to him wandering off, and responding to searchers
- in utero alcohol exposure clearly raises the chance of social complexities, potentially relevant to the care of the child, (i.e. carers, abduction, etc.)

I have not mentioned it just to be mean or pass comment. This forum is called "websleuths" so I assumed that sort of information would be relevant to thinking of all potential causes and factors contributing to disappearance.

 

[inkpink]

If a snake and then animals are involved, you would think his hat would have turned up?

 

[iamshadow21]

Agreed. City folk would also be horrified to learn that kids in outback mining towns play in the mullock heaps around mine shafts.

City kid who regularly holidayed and played in a historic gold mining town... Stories of what we did around open derelict shafts would make your hair stand on end. And I was nowhere near a risk taker, nothing like my brother. We all survived, somehow.

MOO

 

[tedtink]

Gus is described as an adventurous boy and this makes me wonder if he'd strayed a little too far before? I could be reading too much into that though. At 4, a child is getting a little more adventurous and is testing boundaries away from their primary care giver.
If so, the footprint, could have been from before and not necessarily from the time after he disappeared.

JMO

 

[starlightstarbright]

He looks like he might have Foetal Alcohol syndrome

That is the first thing I thought as well. I can understand perhaps why they didn’t immediately release a photo, because the chatter may have distracted from the search. It’s also possible he has parent(s) who are not allowed contact.

That said, I really hope the property itself has been searched. My sense is this isn’t a case of wandering off. It’s a case of getting in trouble close to home. All MOO.

 

[Serononin]

That is the first thing I thought as well. I can understand perhaps why they didn’t immediately release a photo, because the chatter may have distracted from the search. It’s also possible he has parent(s) who are not allowed contact.

That said, I really hope the property itself has been searched. My sense is this isn’t a case of wandering off. It’s a case of getting in trouble close to home. All MOO.

Now that we've seen a picture of where he was playing, the theory someone posted at the beginning of the thread about the sand potentially collapsing in on itself and burying him does sadly seem plausible to me

 

[CredibleSauce]

Yes, it is a pretty big station. 3,000 sheep and a large area. I think they would have station hands, too.

Probably had a good handful of people searching prior to the police arriving at 9:30pm.

To me, that is pretty quick actioning - for a remote outback situation.

imo

There could be station hands, but not necessarily - for example, I know many properties running more than 3000 head and often a single person, couple (or family) is more than adequate tending to that amount of sheep on a day to day basis.
Yunta has been in a rough period of drought too so they’re likely stocked with less sheep than usual - paid employees are often some of the only costs that can be cut in these circumstances.
Many (if not most) stations only employ additional staff when required for more labor intensive animal husbandry tasks like lamb marking, shearing, crutching and mustering for those tasks. If it’s a family owned and operated business, often you’ll find a parent/brother/sister/in law/cousin will just travel across from their property and help during these times.

 

[Marg944]

Taken from the reporter on this news video…. she said that Major Crime Police were back at the property today, despite denials of any foul play.

384K views · 2.3K reactions | The family of little Gus Lamont has been told to prepare for the worst as a massive search near Yunta for the four-year-old enters a fifth day. Police have discovered a breakthrough clue – a child's footprint in the dir

The family of little Gus Lamont has been told to prepare for the worst as a massive search near Yunta for the four-year-old enters a fifth day. Police have discovered a breakthrough clue – a child's...

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