Australian police dug a backyard in Woodridge, Queensland, in search for the remains of a toddler who has not been seen about 10 years already. The police have not revealed specific details of the investigation but reports claimed that the child was only listed as missing last January.
Courier Mail said the police took samples from the backyard of a property along Wagawn Street and these will be submitted for forensic examination. "State Crime Command Homicide Squad is conducting inquiries into the disappearance of a 22-month-old boy who has not been accounted for since 2007," a spokesperson for the New South Wales (NSW) police said.
It was added in the same report that a family lived in the residence sometime in 2007 before they moved to NSW where the missing child was reported. Neighbor and community resident Terri James said she could remember the children of that family always playing outside.
"They were nice people," she noted. "They were always polite, they were just like normal kids."
Citing a Sydney Morning Herald report, Stuff said the toddler was not seen by his relatives starting 2007. It noted that the young kid was sharing a home with an extended family but relatives claimed that he has been missing since that time.
Residents in the community where the child is believed to have been buried were shocked of the said incident claiming that their neighborhood has always been quiet.
"It was a real shock to see all of the police here, I was wondering what had happened," said Helen Macfarlane in the Courier Mail report. "You wouldn't expect to hear of a toddler being buried in a backyard here, there's so many kids about.
She shared that there is nobody occupying the house anymore. "The last person there was an old man but he died. There have been two or three people in the house since 2007," she added.
