Imo there has been no mention (perhaps they adequately told DM to p#ss off, but I doubt that would stop a story)
My hinky meter is currently wobbly.. . nothing feels ‘adequate’ to me, and I don’t know if that’s even the right adjective.
I get there’s disharmony between Josh & a Grandma - but surely circumstances such as this outweigh those differences.
It baffles me that Jess wouldn’t be wanting / needing the support of her reported partner and father of her missing child (+ one ) Similarly it baffles me that Josh isn’t there with her. He’s reported to have searched one night early on, but he’s not stayed around to be of support to Jess or on hand for any bit of information.
Little Gus should be enjoying the blissfully happy & innocent days of childhood. Wherever he is now, my thoughts and prayers are with him in his journey.
My Opinion Only:
Well, it has been
reported before that Josh doesn't live with his little family on the Oak Park Rd station due to "family clashes" with Gus' grandparent Josie.
The Daily Mail has been told that while Josh and Jess remained a couple, he does not live on the station because of family clashes with Jess's transgender parent, Josie.
I'm curious as to what exactly "family clashes" means. It could mean a lot of things. Something bad enough to keep Josh away from his family, obviously. Is it possible that Josh has been banned from the station?
Is it is possible that there might have been coercive control or another form of family violence involved? Family violence doesn't just mean hitting someone, it can be a whole range of actions of non-physical abuse as well.
It was mentioned in
an article yesterday that Josh had been fixing up his house so that Jess & the kids could come and live with him there.
In the lead up to Gus Lamont's disappearance, the heartbroken father of the missing four-year-old had been painstakingly renovating a house in a nearby town, preparing it for his young family to move into before the little boy vanished.
Friends say the devoted dad was counting down the months until Gus began school, eager to create a stable home life after years of living between two properties.
If this is true, it must mean the move was going to happen by January next year, in order for little Gus to start the school year. If so, the deadline was approaching relatively fast.
I wonder what Gus' aging grandparents would have thought of the move? I'd imagine the family's work on the property would be sorely missed - it has been
reported that they are used to and prefer isolation, so I doubt they employ workers on a day-to-day basis. Seasonal, perhaps. But I'd assume the day-to-day operations are run by the family only.
Is Jess an only child?
In my opinion it could have been planned for Jess, and eventually Gus & Ronnie to take over the family property when the time was right. Which would be in the relatively near future, in my opinion. Surely they were planning for the family station to continue?
Continuing on with my postulation - I also assume that since they had spent their lives on the property, preferring the isolation, that they would have wanted to continue staying there well into old age. Age waits for no one - there would come a point in the near future where they could no longer operate the station without younger family members taking over.
It's possible (hypothetically) that there were two different ideas about where the future was headed.
The
most dangerous time for someone to leave an abusive relationship (whether family or intimate partner), centers around the period of leaving.
The time of separation is particularly dangerous for many victims.
Perpetrators who experience a loss of control at this point may try to regain it through escalating forms of violence. In some cases this amounts to the killing of the victim and/or her children as the ultimate act of power and control. Ending an abusive relationship therefore does not necessarily end the abuse. For some victims, it can make it worse.
Well, who knows, I don't know for sure. Just postulating an idea which struck me when I read the article about the family preparing to leave the station. My Opinion Only.
