Child Found Hanging From a Window in a School

The Black Oil

Heard this on Newstalk this morning.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0315/clare.html

Gardaí are investigating the death of a four-year-old boy who was found hanging from a window at the local national school in the village of Feakle in Co Clare.

Hard to say anything really, very sad, his brother found him, jesus.

sprinkles

That's an awful story.....thoughts are with the family, especially the brother who found him

andrew1977

As the father of a 5 year old boy, my stomach churned when i heard the news this morning.What an awful tragedy for any parent to deal with .My thoughts are with the family today also .
I am not normally a religious person but i only hope that the parents are given the strength from somwhere to try and rebuild their life .

Nevyn

The question I keep thinking of is who was ment to be minding/supervising this child ?
Most 4 year old would have well finished school for the day and been at home by 4pm.

flogen

Thaedydal wrote:

The question I keep thinking of is who was ment to be minding/supervising this child ?
Most 4 year old would have well finished school for the day and been at home by 4pm.

Something that crossed my mind when it was reported on RTÉ last night.
They'd be finished at 1 or 2 at the latest, right?
By the looks of the report, however, his body was found at half 4 after he was reported missing; perhaps he and his brother would usually walk home together and only when the brother got back did the parent(s) realise he was missing?
How did he get locked into the school, that's what concerns me.

The Black Oil

We dont know all the facts but there's probably been a failure here along the way somewhere within the school.

My mother is Deputy Principal of a primary school and they always make sure a child is collected. If nobody arrives to collect the child or they don't get a minibus etc the school then rings the parents/grandparents/whoever is responsible to get them to come down to the school. In her school they always check the place is empty at the end of the day and there's often someone around til 5pm (cleaner or caretaker) so there's bound to be an adult around. Of course nothing is 100% but you can't do much more. I know of a recent situation in a different school when two brothers walked home without telling anyone leading the Principal and another teacher to go looking for them, they were found at home, parents didn't seem bothered that it had caused the school concern. It's not always the school that isn't doing its job.