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

[Ruminations]

I think the video of this beautiful alive little boy on his balance bike, is to pull on the heartstrings/emotions of the grandparent (in my view Shannon) who is covering (in my view) for Jose. They are "pleading" with her to do the right thing.

I can't wrap my head around that theory.

Josie and Jess were reportedly together and Shannon was reportedly watching Gus and a baby on the cusp of infancy and toddlerhood. We have no details about what was reported to whom amongst one another at about 5:30- or where Josie and Jess were in their day. Wrapping up? Still hours of work? We don't know who texted whom what or when, although I imagine LE knows.

If this timeline (5:00 playing in sand; 5:30 missing while in the exclusive care of Shannon) is true and Shannon is completely innocent and ignorant of what happened, Josie and Jess each at a minimum have a good idea of who did something, about when, and the ability to give LE a perimeter for how far away Gus could have gotten.

I think that Shannon has to be completely ignorant and innocent, or quite - well- suspicious. And not something in between. Because if she is helping to cover up at all, without much guilt otherwise, I don't think she would put herself alone with the victim for so long. Too risky.

I think if Shannon is helping cover, she's in deep.

I really don't know, but one reason I suspect her a bit more is because Josie and Jess would have each been able to shrink the perimeter and it would have been easier to find Gus.

MOO

 

[Dotta]

I'm not sure
if any pleading/appeal will work with alleged perp if there was foul play.

This appeal may only work with some kind of witness
or a person who suspects something
but still is unwilling (for whatever reason)
to contact Police.

I don't understand
why it was not delivered in September and why photos and video weren't shown then,
at the very beginning???

What was the problem?
I understand the appeal is made solely by parents.
It is parents' right to appeal.
Did anybody hold them back then?

But what do I know??
Nothing.
And I honestly don't know what to think about all this.

JMO

 

[southaus]

I'm sorry for him with his little barefeet on that gravel.

Very normal here to have bare feet -

Especially in the heat as it would get hot and with there being a variety of snakes known to live in the environment.

it’s sunset, the ground will not be hot (especially light coloured gravel) and snakes are very unlikely to be an issue for a kid clattering around on a bike on a driveway.

I say with confidence as a kid that grew up in this environment and who’s raising them now, nothing to worry about or feel sorry about. It’s a sign of a healthy childhood IMO.

Some of the things that are ‘read into’ in this case seem to demonstrate more than anything a misunderstanding of the context of the environment and circumstances Gus went missing in. It is likely one reason police have been so strategic about what to release to the public, we seem to muddy the waters more often than not. MOO.

 

[BerylTutu]

Moo...being bare foot is normal in Australia for children and adults

Homegrown Aussie here can certainly confirm that being barefoot is a very normal thing for us!