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

[Dotta]

I just think he was probably over invested, but sincere. He really wanted to believe Gus was lost but still alive somehow. Jmo

It was so sad
to hear that nobody was searching for little Gus.

I refer to the man who called a radio station and his plea to find the boy.

JMO

 

[Rikissa]

Further to this - I don’t know many women who would stay in a romantic relationship where their former husband becomes a woman meaning the biological female essentially is forced to become a lesbian if they continue in that relationship.

It just doesn’t work like that unless the bio female is bisexual from the outset, and my gay friends assure me that they were born gay and would be aghast at having to change their sexuality for their late in life transitioning partner.

I also note that Josie former Robert only transitioned after Shannon’s father died and after the inheritance.

I can’t imagine that was easy for poor Shannon. I have wondered why any heterosexual woman would stay in that situation and the only thing I can think of is that she didn’t want to but had no choice because she would lose her generational family farm. iMO

Do you mean that the only reason a heterosexual woman would chose to stay in a relationship with someone is to have access to a sexual relationship? If I understand it the grandparents have been together for a very long time, so I would think that there are many more important connections between them, and sex might never have been the #1 priority in their relationship.

 

[Lucy6226]

It feels absurd to me that that someone’s sexual orientation / gender identity is more important to protect than motive and dynamics in a case where a child is missing. It’s possibly relevant in a coercive relationship, IMO

For instance, I watched a US crime recently where the husband was gay and he killed his wife because he was hiding it from her. His sexual orientation was THE motive and fundamental to the case. Why is it different here?

Them's the rules of WS. We all agree to them on joining. They are on the bottom of every page too for easy reference

 

[tricia]

I’m closing this thread temporarily so we can clean it up.
The hostility and bias toward members of the LGBTQ community in this discussion is unacceptable. It is not who we are, and it is not what Websleuths stands for.
Hate of this nature has no place here.
There is absolutely no reason to bring up anyone’s sexuality unless it is directly and legitimately relevant to the facts of the case. If it is not directly connected to the crime, it does not belong in the discussion.
We can — and will — do better than this.