Boy stuck in a well for six days..

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www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/20/spanish-rescuers-start-drilling-to-reach-boy-trapped-in-well-for-six-days

This is awful, I can’t believe it hasn’t been more mainstream news? I fear the worst after so long but I hope they reach him.. IOS anyone else following this?

I hope in time that his parents can take some comfort from that Button.

Rest in Peace little Julen.

That's some comfort

Very small mercies

They heard him crying for half an hour though, didn't they? So he must have been aware and probably was in pain and scared at the end, all alone down there. It's too horrible to contemplate. The poor, poor baby.

I read that they heard him cry as he fell, but then the cries stopped. I had the impression they stopped pretty quickly.

That's better then. I hope he wasn't aware at all after hitting the bottom.

I'm not really sure you would have been able to hear his cries from such a long distance though, would you?

More likely it was his father hanging on to some kind of hope.

Tha autopsy indicated that he died the same day as the fall,

Well in a way thats some comfort. I would not have expected him to have survived that, well from that height as it were, plus did they say he'd been in there 9 days?. If so this was a recovery operation not a rescue, 4/5 days without water? no don't think so.

It seems that people in that area drill wells for water and sometimes Oil but it is criminal to leave it uncapped any small creature could have gone down that.

Oh I pray he died instantly! The thought of him suffering even for a short while breaks my heart.

I'm not really sure you would have been able to hear his cries from such a long distance though, would you?
More likely it was his father hanging on to some kind of hope.

Very much like the sister of that footballer whos gone missing. A lot of people think they should restart the search for him after what days?.

What are they expecting, the searchers to find him bobbing about on a dingy in the atlantic somewhere?.

ByeGermsByeWorries
It should have had a fence round it as well as a cover on top. I hope in future the law is changed surrounding boreholes for additional safety. This must never ever happen again.

I think the problem here is that the existing law was flouted (laws often are in Spain). With a proper cover Julen would not have fallen.

But this might at least raise awareness in Spain of the reasons these laws exist

Justaboy

I imagine that the families in these cases are in such an unbearable amount of pain and just want their loved ones found so don't want anyone giving up. It must be awful to know people have given up.

I hadn't read anywhere that they could hear him for any amount of time, just that his father heard him briefly cry as he fell down. With any mercy he knew nothing more than a few seconds of falling and that was all.

I know what you mean @AgentCooper, before children, stories like this would have made me feel very sad for them of course but once you become a parent, something changes doesn't it? You can relate to their pain to a certain degree as you can imagine how distraught you would be if you were in their shoes. I remember when DD was about 3 and one afternoon I had the TV on and the news headlines came on saying a lorry had gone out of control and killed a little girl around the same age. I just remember feeling my blood run cold and then cried my heart out for her. A little girl I never met but I felt so much sorrow for her. Now I also have DS and the night I read about Julen, I couldn't sleep thinking about him and held DS all night when usually I moan about him taking up all the bed! I think tragedies like this just makes you realise how easily your whole world could be torn apart. There but for the grace of God go I, so to speak

I think given the fall and the autopsy reports it’s pretty safe to assume that he’d have known very little of what was happening. Thankfully.

His poor, poor parents though. 2 wee boys.

The particularly thorny issue here is that, according to news report I read which quoted the father, the father say Julen approach the hole which was covered with two stones, and shouted at him. It seems then that the father was aware that the stones were (badly) covering a deep hole.

Have you actually seen the size of the hole? It was a handspan. You wouldn’t even consider it a danger. Just awful.

Is that addressed to me greyblanket1? If so, yes I have. I would consider it a danger - big enough for an adult leg to fall down, so big enough for a v small child to fall down partially if not fully. My point was that the father clearly thought it was a danger, as he apparently shouted at his child when he saw him approaching the hole.

Sounds like illegal boreholes are a widespread issue across southern Spain. I hope this tragedy serves as an impetus for a crackdown and for drillers to at least take all precautions to ensure nobody else suffers poor Julen’s fate.
www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/13/spain.water

What a harrowing thing to have happened. Awful.