I’m sure it’s no solace to the parents right now, but recovering the child’s body intact for a proper burial might help with emotional healing at some point. It’s not as horrifying as it could have been, bad as it already is.
Exactly my thought when I heard the outcome. As all, I am not connected to this family in any way. But the very thought that this little guy may have been ripped apart by an alligator, leaving nothing, was just unspeakable in even a strangers mind, let alone the parents. As horrific as it is, the thought that this primal creature simply drowned him and left is, I guess, better. I pray it was so quick that he didn’t know what was happening.