Found Deceased Australia - Ruben Scott, 2, Cape York, Far North Queensland, 4 June 2019

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Pi Thoughts said:
Hours earlier Ms Scott urged anyone with information to contact police. “We want our Ruby home safe and sound,” she added.

The little boy only recently turned two.
Search for missing toddler in crocodile habitat continues

Is it just me or does this wording suggest someone knows something about his disappearance? MOO
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That's what I was getting at Pi with all the accomodation for workers, manager's cottage and even a classroom.
With many outback stations there can be backpackers and 'blow-ins' working on the farms.
Here the station encourages tourists and hunters to experience holidays.
.....and well suited to ecotourism, and hunting & fishing safari tourism ventures… or even an Executive getaway holiday destination.
 
LadyL said:
wow!
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I second that wow. Beyond my scope of bravery to enter water where crocs are, snipers or no snipers. Extreme kudos to them.
Sadly, those divers have to be looking at a recovery rather than a rescue. If crocs are like gators, they may find Ruben in the water completely untouched. I do truly hope he’s not in the water at all and was never in proximity to any crocodiles.
 
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The boy's mother, Natasha Scott, posted a frantic Facebook message as the search for the two-year-old resumed at first light on Thursday.

'As people may know my little Ruby has gone missing,' she wrote to Facebook.

'I last saw him at 5:44 yesterday afternoon. I have every person that can help helping to find him. I understand all you guys are shocked and worried but please, try to hold back from messaging me.'

'I'm trying to organise heaps of things to help find him and am trying to hold myself together. I thank and appreciate all you guys are doing for us, the shares help.'

Police divers are now helping in the search for the two-year-old while crews on foot continue to scour dense bushland on the Koolatah Station.

If the little boy is still alive, he's now spent two nights alone in the bush after wandering away from his home on Tuesday afternoon.

Mother's frantic post as search for her missing two-year-old boy Ruben enters ...
 
CROC SHOCK
Missing boy, 2, feared eaten by CROCODILES after wandering off from his family in Australia


Police, rangers, and construction site workers then joined the frantic family in their hunt.

SES regional director Wayne Coutts said: "This is absolutely urgent, a young child like this.

"All resources are being poured into this.

"We have lots of area to cover but statistics tell us that someone under three years old should be found within 2 kilometres of the last area from where they were last seen.

"That’s the focus at the moment."

Missing boy, 2, feared eaten by CROCODILES after wandering off from his family in Australia

Construction site workers....? Please excuse my suspicious mind.


 
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The search, which is in its third day, is using emergency crews, including cattle station crews and graziers with a number of private mustering helicopters and planes. Carloads of neighbours have also arrived to assist in the search.

SES regional director Wayne Coutts said there was “a lot of water in the immediate area where he went missing”.

“Lots of people and lots of resources covered the primary area, which is 2km around from where he was last seen, but it was definitely expanded out from that as well with no result.

“The conditions are obviously good for searching. They’re probably not fantastic for the young child, especially overnight with the cooler temperatures.”

The search team was forced to suspend its rescue operation on the 170,000ha property at dusk yesterday, having failed to find any sign of the boy in the dense scrub and rugged terrain.

A further six SES rescue personnel are en route to join the team today.

“It’s been another long night,” Cape Patrol Inspector Mark Henderson said on Thursday morning.

“We have a large number of resources here, we have about seven helicopters, we have a myriad of SES staff and their resources including a … drone which we’ve been flying over again in the early hours of this morning.

About 20 people from neighbouring properties have joined the search, including “about three carloads” that arrived last night to help look for Ruben.

“We are throwing everything at this. It is now in excess of 40 hours so it does make the challenge a bit harder, and as we speak we have some light rain starting to fall, so that will make our day difficult,” Insp Henderson said.

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gregjrichards said:
Divers are called in to comb crocodile-infested lagoon as search for missing two-year-old boy Ruben enters its third day.

“Nearby Mitchell and Alice Rivers are 'the home' of crocodiles and bull sharks”

Mother's frantic post as search for her missing two-year-old boy Ruben enters THIRD day | Daily Mail Online

This is awful.
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The legendary ‘Koolatah Lake’ is a 5km long waterhole on Yanko Creek and is reputed to be up to 6m in depth.
Koolatah Station, Normanton - Slaney & Co.
 
Let’s pray Ruben is found alive and well.

It can happen.

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We have wild pigs in the outback and they will kill sheep and their lambs. It’s not only the crocs but the pigs will also eat and kill a child. Then we also have dingos.
Little Ruben would have more chance if he had walked away from the water and into the desert. The weather has been around 18c but it’s started to rain.
 
Heat seeking drones and night vision in use .....


"Seven helicopters and heat seeking drones have crisscrossed the 170,000-hectare (over 420,000 acres) station scouring for signs of the boy as others searched on foot, horseback or motorbike.
But by midday today there was still no sign.

The largely undeveloped station on the western side of Cape York Peninsula is heavily forested and bordered by the Mitchell and Alice rivers, which spill out across the delta during the wet season, filling channels, dams and natural waterholes which are known crocodile habitats.

SES regional director Wayne Coutts said drones used in the search, include one equipped with specialised night-vision technology capable of detecting body heat. Inspector Mark Henderson said the search would continue. “We’re doing everything we can to find this young fellow,” he said."

NoCookies | The Australian
Grave fears as search continues for little boy lost Ruben Scott, 2
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So does Ruben's family LIVE here? Or were they just visiting? If he's been raised here, that's a tiny bit different. Would be good to know.

LadyL said:
I wonder how mom is able to be so precise with the time she last saw him? 5:44 p.m., (not 5:45)
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My first thought was she had taken a picture or sent a text at that moment.

Pi Thoughts said:
Hours earlier Ms Scott urged anyone with information to contact police. “We want our Ruby home safe and sound,” she added.

The little boy only recently turned two.
Search for missing toddler in crocodile habitat continues

Is it just me or does this wording suggest someone knows something about his disappearance? MOO
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Water.
Crocs.
Sharks.
Abduction.

I know which one I'M hoping for. I'm sure this mother is clinging to the only shred of hope remaining, that someone took her boy and he's still alive.
 
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