Little Boy Swept Away To Sea

[horseshoes]

I can't begin to imagine what this poor family are enduring while the search goes on for their young son. Aberffraw is SUCH a beautiful beach, and such a thing is HARD to imagine. Weather is now hampering the helicopter's ability to search. I pray I'm wrong and that this has a happy outcome, but I have a gut feeling this lad won't be starting a new term at school. Poor, poor lad.

[horseshoes]

Sorry, I forgot the link.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-28987447

[Mamyalynne]

Oh heartbreaking - I do hope they find him.

[furrypusscat]

Fingers crossed for a happy ending but I must admit it doesn't sound very promising.

[horseshoes]

Me too Mamyalynne but it's getting pretty desperate now. It's pitch dark here and the weather is foul.

[mallyh]

awful news ,like you i prey they find him .

[boxtops]

Fifty years ago, I remember the toddler daughter of a friend on mine drowned on a Welsh beach, granny was looking after the two little girls and turned her back for a minute - life shattering, dreadful. My thoughts are with the family.

[marval]

This is such a sad story, I so wish he is alive, but it doesn't look too good.
My thoughts and prayers are with the family.

[horseshoes]

The search resumed this morning.

[lady-janine]

poor little boy. poor family. a night in the sea for a five year old. oh dear. I hate to say it but I think they are searching for a body. such a shame.

[horseshoes]

He's 12 Jan. I don't think anybody could survive yesterday's conditions, let alone a child. I keep thinking perhaps a boat picked him up, but they would know by now if that were the case. Family is from Huddersfield.

[wendilla]

I am reading this with a lump in my throat . Thoughts with family you just can't imagine what they are going through .

[RATTER15]

I once lost a good friend this way, when I was 15. We lived in Dawlish, Devon. We had skived off school and a crowd of us went to the beach to see the high tide. He was washed off the wall and found a a week or so later washed up on a nearby beach. Deep down we all knew the outcome but until the body was found you live in hope!

[horseshoes]

It happened to the son of my Mum's best friend when we about 6, but it was in a weir not the sea.

I think this particular incident is SO upsetting is that it's a beach our family have used for years and my son and granddaughter swim there regularly. I was driving along the coast about an hour ago and the sea looks so grey and unforgiving. It's just terrible. They've now sent in an underwater team and it's a shoreline based search, so perhaps he's been swept under the rocks.