A daycare centre in Perth’s north is under investigation after a non-verbal three-year-old boy with autism managed to escape.
Otis’s angry parents say he climbed over a 2m-high concrete wall on Thursday morning and spent five minutes unaccounted for before he was found by a stranger.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Perth boy with autism escapes from childcare centre.
A good Samaritan returned Otis to Keiki Early Learning in Alkimos, but his parents want to know how it happened.
“Just heartbroken I guess. It should never have happened and… I don’t know how long he was out there,” his mother Alison Bowers told 7NEWS.
“You always know the whereabouts of your children, especially at a young age, and even in five minutes I didn’t know where he was or what he was doing or who he was with.”
Otis’s parents said they were initially told a staff member spotted him, but an incident report says he was returned by a member of the public.
They say they have been kept in the dark about who the stranger is.
Otis is non-verbal and cannot confirm who found him or what he was doing.
“I would love to know the person that found him — one to thank them because they are the hero in all this, and to know what happened,” Bowers said.
The incident is not the first at Keiki. Two weeks ago Otis managed to get his hands on the top of a high wall.
The centre says perspex panels had been purchased to be used as a barrier, but they were not installed by the time Otis escaped.
The Education and Care Regulatory Unit is now investigating.
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