A Victoria toddler drowned a short distance away from his home yesterday after wandering away unnoticed.
Dead is three-year-old Ryan Skeete of 357 East Sideline, Victoria Village. He went missing around 9.30 am and an hour later his body was fished out of a trench. No one saw when the child walked out of the yard, crossed a dam and ended up at the trench where he drowned.
According to relatives who were at home with Ryan and several other children, “one minute he was there and the next he was gone”. One relative said that the child usually played in the yard and would venture out occasionally but only after he got permission. She said that yesterday he did not ask anyone.
