3yr old boy survived alone for 2 weeks.......

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alongside his dead mother here

god how awful... that poor little boy. I just hope he has a good support network now so that he can get help with the trauma of having that experience.

omg the poor, poor little mite. I don't even have words.

So sad.

Shocking to think that no-one thought of checking up on them in those 2 weeks!

Oh my dear god. I feel sick .

my god, that is so terrible. Poor child. My son is 3 and it makes me feel so sad to know that he would totally know what had happened to me and would be really distressed by the experience.

Poor thing.

Shouldn't the nursery have raised an alert sooner? This is scary.... the poor little soul.

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The Fort is just about a quarter mile north of our flat here in Leith. It's a sad, scary place slated to be torn down in the next 5 years or so. Lots of people housed there with serious addiction problems.

Poor wee soul.

They said on BBC news this morning that the mother was known to suffer bad asthma.

Poor desparate little mite. How could the grandmother not have realised?

Her death is not being treated as suspicious. Guess we'll know more once the post mortem is finished.

poor little boy.....very sad.

What I thought was the saddest thing was that his mum had been dead 2 weeks and nobody had noticed. You'd think somebody would have tried to contact her.

Heard he'd tried to cover her up. Made me want to cry.

It was the child's nursery that contacted the authorities, not the woman's family. Hmmm.

He'd have missed a little over a week of nursery b/c they're on term break just now.

I heard (on the news) that the school had contacted the gran who had contact the police. The school didn't contact the gran sooner because they had to search for her details (sounds like they didn't have them).

I saw them interview the woman's neighbour - what I thought was incredibly sad was that she said that there had been no noise from the flat at all. The only strange thing she had noticed was that some post had come out through the front of the door - she said afterwards she realised it must have been the little boy trying to get someone's attention

its so sad, poor little lamb, but i dont think he made any noise or anything so how would anyone know, think it teaches us we all need to teach our kids what to do if something happens to us, even from a young age, glad he's ok and kept himself going tho!

Don't you just want to scoop the little lad up and care for him? poor mite.

This story has really got to me today. I couldn't belive what I was hearing on the news this morning. Very very sad.

Don't know the details but from the article here it doesn't sound like his mum was anything but a lovely mum who was perhaps taken in a natural way. Hope so. The wee soul. I'm not a religious person in any way but will say a prayer for him and hope the world welcomes and looks after him. Makes you want to take him home.

Does make me wonder why granny wasn't in touch in some shape or form.....

Makes me think of Bye Bye Baby by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The book alone makes me cry let alone the similarity.

staceym11, that is a very good point - we need to try to teach our children what to do in an emergency.

I live 300 miles away from all my family so when dh goes away for a few days if he didn't ring every night and therefore would know something was wrong that way no one else would know. I don't talk to my mum every day like some people do and I don't see people every day either, like friends, relatives etc