3 year old boy (Noah) missing in Brantham, Suffolk

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr5yev2v1x29o

Oh God bless him! Every parents worse nightmare!

Ffs this is about a little boy who's missing, it isnt about gossip or speculation.

If you want a whodunit then go to the library instead of starting nasty rumours about a family already going through hell.

I think toddler reins are frowned upon by the wokery these days, but I honestly cannot understand why everyone isn't using them. Would have made it much harder for those evil boys to snatch James Bulger all those years ago, and surely they're amazing for making sure your child doesn't dart into traffic or run off into other danger, like this little boy seems to have done. And you don't have to be quite so constantly hypervigilant about where they are every second. You never see reins these days, in fact I don't think they were ever actually popular. Which is amazing given how many dangers they help avoid.

@notwhingingjuststatingfacts , things like heat detection and infra-red cameras I think

Yeah the police will have thermal drones to pick up heat sources. There’s no helicopters up over the area atm so I suspect they have drone pilots out. I hope they find him

Strange times have found us.

I worked as a support worker for 3-7 year old's with autism and 2 of the children I worked in used backpacks with reins attached. I got some horrible looks from members of the public when I was out with the kids and I quite regularly would put these busybodies in their place. These kids would shoot of into the road with no-notice and holding hands for hours on end wasn't always possible - hands get sweaty and the child can slip loose. The reins allowed the children to safely access their local community. I think they are fab and I'll be using them for my baby too once he is walking.

Excellent! You'll be doing your part to normalise them.

I'm a grandparent with Parkinsons and probably couldn't. I rely on mine not trying to bolt.

From Google Earth, if he went down what looks like the foot path/bridle path to the pond as reported, it seems to be a long relatively straight open path of around 200 metres off road. I find it strange someone who was looking for him wouldn't have immediately spotted him running down it even from a distance unless there was quite a delay in noticing he was gone but then how would they know what direction he'd gone in?

I can't see anything that looks like an alley from the playground, just that footpath.

Really hope he's found safe and well, although that's looking increasingly unlikely almost 12 hours later unless by sheer miracle he's found on someone's property. There are houses along there but they would have been the first ones to have been asked to search gardens/garages surely.

Please don't let this be another Mikaeel Kular. That case haunted me.

I used a type of ‘lead’ with dd with 2 wrist bands, so that we were attached together. This was after dd tried to bolt when we were in the shops at 18 months old, I grabbed her hood and she had a reflex anoxic seizure. This is a medical condition and autonomic reaction, where the heart stops and automatically restarts. She wasn’t yet diagnosed, so it was pretty scary. Idc what people thought. To add, she wasn’t yet diagnosed very active and late diagnosed AuDHD.

Reins are amazing - I used a sturdy set of leather reins/harness without a backpack on mine after my eldest tried to do a runner, and they were a lifesaver. I found them particularly good when my second was just starting to walk because whenever they started to fall over, I could haul them back upright before they hit the pavement. I'd recommend them for everyone with a toddler - no harm in them, and they're an extra protection.

I really hope Noah is found safely very soon. He's so small that if he huddled up in a tight spot and fell asleep, it might be difficult to spot him initially, but he still could be safe somewhere. What a terrible nightmare for his family.

You should DEFINITELY look into toddler reins, in that case.

Hope Noah will be found safe and sound. Poor little guy.

Oh no, I skipped to the end of the thread hoping he would have been found by now.

Ds was non verbal and a runner too. He had a little animal backpack with a waist strap and reins attached.

When dd came along she also got the backpack even though she wasn't a runner. After experiencing how fast ds could disappear once (worst 20 seconds of my life that felt like an eternity, I had just bent to brush something off my shoe) it just made me feel far more confident and relaxed when we were out.

The river Stour is nearby, this was my first thought 😞

He was with his grandfather 😥 He probably wasn't fast enough to chase after him before he disappeared out of view.

I'm very woke (proudly so) and I used a reins backpack on my toddler. I think it's a different subset of people that frown upon reins.

God, I hope they find him safe, and quickly.

His poor parents must be frantic 🙁

God, this is terrible. I’ve also done that thing when mine were toddlers where I’ve turned my back on a shop and had a few minutes of utter panic. Desperately hoping for a happy ending.

As for the poster saying how could he run that fast… genuinely my best friends little boy could go like Forest Gump when he was that age. We all the went to the park one day with the kids while my friend was heavily pregnant. He bolted off down a hill towards a lake. My friend was almost a week over her due date and in no fit state to run, so I went after him, but he was going so fast that it was taking everything I had to match his speed. In the end I got close enough to him that I sort of lunged and rugby tackled him to the ground. We were literally three metres from the lake. He had no sense of danger whatsoever. He’s actually got an ASD diagnosis now and is still quite a thrill seeker, but doesn’t bolt like that anymore, thank goodness .

Hopefully there’s lots of CCTV in the area that’s being checked

We tried all sorts of reigns and wrists restraints for our son who has ASD. The problem was he'd just drop to the ground and you could not move him. I am so hoping that Noah is found safe, it was the first thing I thought about this morning.

friends of ours have an autistic runner and it's an absolute nightmare. When he was two he made it onto a bus on his own and was seconds from being on the way to the next town. I can only imagine what the family are going through, we can only hope he's got his head down somewhere in a shed or under a bush and will come out looking for breakfast when it gets light.